About Annette
Annette Warner is a licensed independent clinical social worker with 22 years of experience. She has spent much of her career supporting people facing trauma, mood challenges, anxiety, and parenting stresses. Annette practices in Minnesota and offers therapy in English.
Annette’s background includes long-term work with people who have severe and persistent mental health conditions and dual diagnosis. She has also supported people connected to adoption and foster care and has lived experience as a foster parent over several years.
How Annette works
That history informs how she thinks about attachment, abandonment, and family concerns. In sessions she keeps the tone warm and respectful. She aims to give people emotional space to talk through what feels painful.
Her style is collaborative and straightforward, using concrete steps people can try between meetings. Her approach draws on client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, and trauma-focused work. That blend means she will listen closely, help identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, teach calming and grounding skills, and address the effects of trauma when it’s present.
People often come for help with depression, bipolar mood swings, panic and anxiety, obsessive-compulsive worries, grief, sleep problems, anger, and ADHD-related struggles. Annette also supports parents dealing with the strain of raising children and people coping with major life changes. If someone is ready to start, the process begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session.
Therapy sessions are offered through several online formats to fit different needs and rhythms.
Annette lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Annette works with
The areas below are the ones Annette selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Minnesota |
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Online support options
How Annette’s approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. The therapist follows your lead, reflects what you say, and helps you clarify goals and values so sessions feel relevant and respectful.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It teaches practical techniques to spot unhelpful thinking, test new behaviors, and reduce anxiety, panic, and compulsive patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and propose strategies that fit. That means therapy can shift over time if different issues or priorities emerge.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and exercises that benefit from seeing each other. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when a written record of ideas helps with homework. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between appointments.
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