- Human-centered approach
- Focus on practical steps
- Experience with trauma
About Anna
Anna Marasco is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 11 years of experience helping people facing trauma, addiction, and mood concerns. She takes a human-centered approach and aims to meet clients where they are. Her style is direct but compassionate, and she encourages honesty about both struggles and strengths.
Anna sees behaviors like substance use or emotional outbursts as learned survival strategies rather than core identity. She invites clients to bring the messy parts of life into sessions alongside their successes. That stance shapes practical, grounded conversations rather than a rigid set of techniques.
Her background includes work with PTSD, complicated grief and loss, anxiety, depression, ADHD, autism, suicidality, personality disorders, and co-occurring substance use. Over more than a decade she has supported people with a range of complex presentations and overlapping concerns.
Anna adapts her methods to each person instead of following a fixed script. She draws on Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing when appropriate. The focus is on collaboratively identifying goals and practical steps toward them.
Outside of clinical work she holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and is an avid equestrian. Her approach is supportive and persistent - she compares herself to a bowling gutter bumper, helping people stay on course while they do the work themselves.
Anna sees behaviors like substance use or emotional outbursts as learned survival strategies rather than core identity. She invites clients to bring the messy parts of life into sessions alongside their successes. That stance shapes practical, grounded conversations rather than a rigid set of techniques.
Her background includes work with PTSD, complicated grief and loss, anxiety, depression, ADHD, autism, suicidality, personality disorders, and co-occurring substance use. Over more than a decade she has supported people with a range of complex presentations and overlapping concerns.
Anna adapts her methods to each person instead of following a fixed script. She draws on Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing when appropriate. The focus is on collaboratively identifying goals and practical steps toward them.
Outside of clinical work she holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and is an avid equestrian. Her approach is supportive and persistent - she compares herself to a bowling gutter bumper, helping people stay on course while they do the work themselves.
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