Anna Childs
Compassionate guidance for parents and families
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Anna
Anna Childs is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on families and parenting concerns alongside a wide range of individual struggles. She works with children ages 6 and up, adolescents, and adults, offering practical support for issues like anxiety, addiction, grief, sleep problems, and parenting challenges. Her tone is straightforward and calm, aimed at parents who want clear next steps.
She brings 12 years of experience in varied settings and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Background and approach
Anna also earned a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire and an Associate's degree from Fox Valley Technical College. She completed a specialized certificate from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee to support her clinical work. Anna uses treatment approaches that fit the person and the problem.
She practices Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, and has EMDR training focused on developmentally appropriate treatment for children as well as EMDR-Sandtray methods for nonverbal processing. She also integrates parts work and nervous system strategies to help with regulation. In sessions she combines talk therapy, somatic awareness, and creative tools when helpful.
Parents and caregivers can expect a steady, relational presence and concrete techniques to try between visits. The pace and focus are guided by the family’s needs. She holds Wisconsin license WI LCSW 9380-123 and works with clients in English.
Online formats include video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexible ways to connect.
How Anna’s approaches translate to online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person without judgment, helping parents and children feel understood while identifying practical next steps. Dialectical Behavior Therapy - DBT - teaches concrete skills for managing strong emotions, improving relationships, and coping with stress in everyday life. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - EMDR - is used to process traumatic memories; adapted EMDR methods, including sandtray techniques, can help children and those who prefer less direct verbal work.Choosing the right method is part of the process. Anna works collaboratively to find approaches that match a family's goals, needs, and comfort level. She may combine elements of these therapies and adjust them over time based on what is helping.
Online therapy with video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules. These formats let parents attend from home, check in between visits, or use shorter messaging contacts when that suits the family. Many families find the flexibility helps them try techniques consistently and keep progress moving forward.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
EMDR
A structured protocol used with distressing memories, pairing recall with guided attention tasks. Some therapists adapt it for video sessions; whether that fits is worth asking about directly.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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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