AnneMarie Winic, LCSW

AnneMarie Winic is a licensed clinical social worker in California with 24 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, relationship struggles, and parenting challenges. She communicates with respect and compassion and adapts her work to each person's needs.

Her approach is practical and conversational. She listens first, then helps people notice thoughts and patterns that get in the way. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy along with other approaches to help people test new ways of thinking and behaving. Sessions are focused on real-life problems and small changes that add up over time.

AnneMarie pays attention to attachment and communication patterns that affect relationships. She can help people unpack family of origin issues, codependency, guilt and shame, and feelings of emptiness. She also supports those navigating caregiver stress, workplace pressures, and midlife or young adult transitions.

She offers work that balances skill-building and emotional understanding. Techniques from Dialectical Behavior Therapy and motivational interviewing may be woven in to help with impulse control, emotional regulation, and finding motivation. The tone in sessions is warm and straightforward, with an emphasis on practical steps.

AnneMarie provides services in English and American Sign Language for people who are hearing impaired. Her work centers on collaboration, helping people set realistic goals, and adjusting plans as progress is made.

Approach and online options that fit your life

AnneMarie uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, stress, low mood, and self-esteem work and focuses on practical steps and experiments people can do between sessions.

She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationship patterns shape current connections. This approach helps people understand emotional patterns in relationships and improve communication and closeness. Client-Centered Therapy informs the work by keeping conversations focused on the person's experience, values, and goals, with the therapist following the client's lead.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. She collaborates with each person to decide which methods feel useful and adjusts the plan as goals evolve. That means trying strategies, reviewing what helps, and shifting focus when needed so the work stays relevant.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and teaching skills, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied daily routines.