Anna Childs , LCSW

Anna Childs is a licensed clinical social worker with 12 years of experience helping people through hard times. She focuses on women's issues among a range of concerns and aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for people feeling overwhelmed.

Her work centers on lowering anxiety, managing stress, and addressing depression and grief. She also helps people facing addiction, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, sleep and eating struggles, and the ripple effects of trauma. Clients commonly come for help with self-esteem, career shifts, ADHD, and coping with major life changes.

Anna uses an integrative, trauma-informed approach. Sessions combine talk therapy with techniques that target the nervous system and emotional parts of a person. This includes evidence-informed tools meant to reduce distress and build coping skills over time.

She draws from Client-Centered ideas to keep sessions focused on each person's goals. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used for emotion regulation and coping. Anna also uses trauma-focused tools to help process painful memories and reduce their hold on daily life.

Anna trained and practiced in Wisconsin and brings practical skills developed over many settings. People describe her style as warm and direct; she aims to make each step manageable. If someone is ready to start, she guides them through simple steps to match therapy to their needs.

Therapeutic approaches you can use online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following each person's goals. It helps people feel heard and helps them find practical steps that fit their life. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches specific skills for managing intense emotions, reducing impulsive behavior, and improving relationships. It is useful for people who need tools to tolerate distress and communicate more clearly.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose or combine methods based on goals, symptoms, and personal preferences. That collaboration can include trying skills-based work, short-term solution-focused steps, or deeper trauma-focused processing depending on what the client needs.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging let people share thoughts between sessions or use shorter check-ins during busy days. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family life while keeping the work with a licensed professional consistent and goal-oriented.