Annette Warner

Annette Warner is a licensed independent clinical social worker with over 22 years in the field. She has worked across settings including schools, foster care, and community mental health. Annette focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood changes, and trauma-related struggles.

She brings practical experience supporting parents, caregivers, and adults facing persistent mental health challenges. Her background includes work with people navigating adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, and intellectual disability related needs. Annette also counsels around grief, sleep problems, anger, and obsessive or compulsive behaviors.

Annette’s style is warm and respectful. She aims to create a space where people can say what matters to them and begin to make changes. Sessions emphasize clear skills and simple strategies people can use between meetings.

Her clinical approach combines client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques and trauma-focused methods. She also incorporates mindfulness practices to help with stress regulation and grounding during difficult moments.

Annette has long experience working with complex situations such as co-occurring conditions and dual diagnoses. She draws on that background to tailor practical plans that address daily life, parenting demands, and emotional coping.

To begin, she invites people to describe their immediate concerns and priorities so the work can match what matters most. The emphasis is on small, achievable steps that build toward better daily functioning and clearer relationships.

How these approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and building trust. The therapist follows the person’s lead, reflects what they say, and helps them name priorities and next steps. This approach is useful when someone needs support sorting out feelings or deciding on changes.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into smaller parts like thoughts, actions, and feelings. It teaches clear skills and experiments people can try between sessions to reduce anxiety, manage mood, or address OCD patterns.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to decide whether client-centered listening, CBT, mindfulness practices, or trauma-focused tools fit best. Goals, personal preferences, and daily demands guide what is tried first.

For practical online arrangements, please confirm current session options before booking since formats are not listed in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, shorten travel time, and allow check-ins during a lunch break or after caregiving duties. Some approaches lend themselves to brief skills coaching while others use longer sessions to process trauma; the therapist will recommend what suits the client’s needs.