About Anna
Anna Childs is a licensed clinical social worker in Wisconsin with 12 years of experience. She works with people facing anxiety, stress, addiction, trauma, and a range of life changes. She focuses on practical steps to help clients feel steadier and more able to cope.
Anna uses a mix of approaches that match what each person needs. She favors client-centered work that follows the person's pace and priorities. She also uses trauma-focused techniques and tools that can include eye movement based methods to help process distressing memories.
Background and approach
Her background includes a Master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and earlier degrees from UW–Eau Claire and Fox Valley Technical College. She also completed a specialized certificate from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee to support her clinical work. In sessions she combines talk therapy with body-focused awareness and expressive methods when those help.
That can look like learning skills for emotion regulation, practicing grounding and breathing, or using creative tools to name and move painful memories. Anna aims to create a steady, nonjudgmental space where clients set the goals. She helps people build clarity, resilience, and practical coping strategies they can use day to day.
Reaching out is described as a step toward feeling more capable and supported.
Online approaches for trauma and skills-based change
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely to what matters most to the person and following their lead to set goals and pace. It helps people who need a steady, empathetic space to make sense of their experiences and decide what to work on.Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, handling conflict, and improving focus. It is useful for people who need tools for regulation and for reducing harmful coping patterns.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method used to reduce the distress linked to painful memories by guiding attention while processing those memories. It can help people who carry strong emotional reactions to past events.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs, then suggest methods to try. Clients and the therapist decide collaboratively which techniques fit best and adjust the plan over time.
Online therapy makes those approaches more accessible through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth sessions and guided exercises, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These options let clients fit therapy into busy schedules, manage follow-up between appointments, and use different ways of communicating as they progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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