Annette Warner, LICSW

Annette Warner is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) practicing in Minnesota with 22 years of clinical experience working across the lifespan. She has extensive experience with children and families and has supported adults with severe and persistent mental health conditions, including dual diagnosis. Her professional interests center on trauma, informed by focused training and hands-on experience both in educational settings and through her role as a foster parent for seven years.

Annette works with a broad range of concerns, including depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive tendencies, ADHD, grief, relationship and family difficulties, parenting challenges, and mood disorders such as bipolar disorder. She also addresses issues related to abandonment, attachment, adoption and foster care, dissociation, isolation and loneliness, and other complex presentations. Her practice includes helping clients manage sleep disturbances, anger, panic symptoms, and difficulties with self esteem and coping with life changes.

Her therapeutic stance is respectfully warm and compassionate, creating emotional and physical space for clients to feel comfortable sharing difficult material and beginning work toward healing. Clinically she integrates trauma-focused cognitive behavioral methods with family-centered and solution-focused strategies, tailoring interventions to each person or family. Annette aims to collaborate with clients to identify goals and build practical skills that support recovery and resilience.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Annette draws on multiple evidence-informed approaches to tailor care to each person's needs. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist listens closely and supports the client's own goals and insights; this approach helps when someone needs a safe space to explore emotions and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, emphasizes identifying and changing unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and is often useful for anxiety, depression, OCD, and mood regulation challenges. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on understanding and processing traumatic experiences while developing coping skills to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.

Choosing the best therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. Annette works with clients to assess goals, preferences, and symptoms, and she adjusts methods over time so the treatment fits the person and family context. Clients and the therapist decide together on pacing and strategies.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats provide greater flexibility for scheduling, make it easier to include family members when appropriate, and allow people to continue care from home or other convenient settings. Licensed professionals can deliver many effective interventions through these remote formats while working with clients to meet practical needs and life demands.