About Anna
Anna enjoys working with adults who want to reclaim their lives despite stressors, transitions, and other difficult circumstances. She strives to help her clients develop a more balanced and healthy lifestyle. Anna specializes in treating anxiety and mood disorders, insomnia, grief, life transitions and stress. She particularly enjoys working with anxious overachievers, people who have insomnia, military veterans, and those in helping professions (e.g. health care, education, public safety, etc.).
Anna is warm and down-to-earth and genuinely enjoys working with people. She supports her clients in identifying patterns and behaviors that may keep them stuck and in developing healthy coping skills to change or work within their circumstances. She also supports her clients in expanding skills to improve their relationships, social connections, and community integration.
Anna draws from a variety of approaches, including cognitive behavioral, mindfulness, attachment-informed, and solution-focused therapies and techniques. She is trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), Prolonged Exposure (PE) for PTSD, and Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) for depression and grief. Treatment and interventions are evidence-based, collaborative, and personalized for each client.
Anna values giving back to her community and offers a series of pro bono sessions for firefighters at the Wilmington Fire Department. In addition to therapy, Anna also offers clinical supervision for LCSWAs in North Carolina. Anna has extensive experience working with clients who have serious mental illness (SMI), particularly psychotic- and bipolar-spectrum disorders. She is available for case consultation to clinicians working with this population, as well as with insomnia and military veterans.
Anna is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She received both her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Social Work degrees from The University of Iowa. Anna worked in the VA Health Care System for nearly a decade providing mental health care to veterans and their families in a variety of treatment settings. She hails from the Midwest but now calls North Carolina home.