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Annette Warner

Compassionate family-focused clinical social worker

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Credentials
LICSW
Experience
22 years
Licensed in
Minnesota
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Annette

Annette Warner is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with 22 years of experience. She focuses on family and parenting concerns and on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She has worked with children, families, and adults with serious mental health needs, and has lived experience as a foster parent that informs her perspective.

Annette brings a warm and respectful presence to sessions. She aims to create space where caregivers and family members can talk openly about problems.

Background and approach

She listens first, then helps clients set small, practical goals they can try between sessions. Her work often combines trauma-focused care with cognitive behavioral techniques and client-centered listening. That means she helps people learn skills to change upsetting thoughts and reactions while also paying attention to how trauma has shaped their responses.

She also draws on mindfulness practices to help with anxiety, sleep, and anger. Annette has supported issues such as parenting challenges, grief, relationship and family problems, ADHD, obsessive and mood disorders, panic, and attachment concerns. She has additional experience with adoption and foster care, intellectual disability, autism, dissociation, and feelings of emptiness or isolation.

Sessions aim to be practical and grounded. Annette helps parents and caregivers find clearer routines, improve communication, and build coping strategies. She works in English and practices in Minnesota as MN LICSW 16202.

Online approaches that support families and caregivers

Annette uses cognitive behavioral therapy and trauma-focused work in ways that are easy to use during online sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors to reduce anxiety, panic, or depressive symptoms. It is useful for sleep problems, panic attacks, OCD symptoms, and mood management.

Trauma-Focused Therapy helps people understand how past harm affects current feelings and relationships. This approach uses careful, paced techniques to reduce distress and to build safer ways of relating and coping, which can be especially helpful for parents and foster caregivers processing trauma histories.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. She partners with each person to pick strategies that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That collaborative planning continues as progress is made and needs change.

Online therapy offers flexibility for busy families. Video calls let caregivers and children join from home, while phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or when schedules are tight. These options help make consistent support more accessible across different routines and life demands.

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.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.

Mindfulness Therapy

Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting, self esteem, relationship and family problems, grief, sleeping difficulties, anger, bipolar and depression, and coping with life changes. Additional focuses include ADHD, OCD, panic, attachment issues, and adoption and foster care concerns.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is warm and respectful with an emphasis on listening first. She combines client-centered listening with practical skill-building so people leave with things they can try between sessions.
What is her professional background?
She has 22 years of clinical experience working with children, families, and adults with persistent mental health conditions, and several years of experience as a foster parent that informs her trauma work.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with the Minnesota license number MN LICSW 16202 and practices in Minnesota.
In what languages are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
Which session formats does she provide?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different needs and schedules.
How is payment handled and what does therapy cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

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Experience
22 years
Licensed
Minnesota
Languages
English

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