Anna Marasco, LCSW

Anna Marasco is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 11 years of experience supporting people through trauma, dual diagnosis, and addiction. As an LCSW she is a master's-level clinician licensed to provide psychotherapy and other mental health services. Her practice is grounded in a humanistic, client-centered perspective that treats behaviors and maladaptive coping - such as substance use, self-harm, or emotional dysregulation - as learned survival strategies rather than fixed identity traits.

She approaches each person with the assumption that they are doing the best they can, regardless of how they arrive in session. Her work invites difficult, messy material alongside strengths and joy, holding both the darker and brighter parts of experience with equal compassion. Clinically, she adapts interventions to meet an individual's needs instead of offering a rote list of techniques, favoring an integrated approach that draws on Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Trauma-Focused Therapy.

Her areas of specialty include stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression. She also addresses a wide range of related concerns such as abandonment, attachment issues, autism and Asperger Syndrome, personality and relational difficulties, body image, caregiver stress, co-occurring diagnoses, codependency, dissociation, and disruptive mood patterns. Anna considers the multiple layers of each person's life and tailors treatment to those complexities, serving as an advocate and steady support throughout the therapeutic process. She often uses approachable metaphors to describe her role - she supports and believes in a person's ability to move toward their goals without doing the work for them, much like the inflatable gutter bumpers at a bowling alley that keep a ball in play while the bowler continues to aim and learn.

Outside of clinical work she holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and maintains a deep passion for horses. She is an avid equestrian and has a tattoo honoring her horse, Henry. Anna values creative expression and the varied ways people make meaning in their lives, and she encourages compassionate attention to both struggle and growth.