Anna Carbone
Licensed Master Social Worker
Anna Carbone
Licensed Master Social Worker
Specializing In
Trauma
Depression
Anxiety
Self-Esteem Issues
Phobias
School Avoidance
About Anna Carbone
Anna is a licensed social worker with several years of experience working with children, adolescents, and their families. Anna has pursued this work in a variety of settings, including elementary, midddle, and high schools, as well as higher education settings and nonprofit community-based organizations. She also supports the creation of children’s media content, and understands that with the right tools and strategies, children can overcome social-emotional challenges of any kind.
Anna takes both a strengths-based and trauma informed approach to therapy, helping kids feel empowered in all that makes them unique and resilient. She integrates a variety of techniques into her practice to best meet a child’s needs, including (but not limited to): cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness-based stress reduction, acceptance and commitment therapy, motivational interviewing, and behavior therapy. She creates a warm, welcoming, and safe environment for kids to feel heard and understood.
Anna received her training from Colombia University School of Social Work where she specialized in Family, Youth, and Children’s services. She has professional certifications in motivational interviewing and nonprofit management. In her spare time, Anna likes to travel, practice martial arts, and try new pizza recipes!
Training & Techniques
Tap on one of the tabs below to learn more about the training and certification.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
CBT is an evidence-based approach to treating anxiety disorders, such as generalized anxiety, separation anxiety, social anxiety, panic disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. It has also been demonstrated to be effective in treating depression. CBT helps children and teens analyze and reduce negative thoughts that lead to unhelpful thinking and behavior in order to promote more positive thoughts and experiences.
Motivational Interviewing
Motivational Interviewing is a therapeutic technique used to establish rapport with children and adolescents and used to encourage positive behavioral changes. The goal is to help children convince themselves they should, can, and will change. It emphasize the importance of finding internal motivation to change thoughts and behaviors to promote positive experiences. Instead of convincing children to “want to change,” they become aware of their need to make changes in their life to experience success.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a way to help children and teens slow down their thinking so they can pay more attention to their thoughts and notice what they are doing. This is the opposite of rushing or balancing many tasks at once. Instead, children and adolescents learn to take their time and become intuned with their surroundings. Mindfulness can be thought of as a relaxation strategy to help a child stay calm under stress, avoid becoming upset too easily, slow dow instead of rushing, be more patient, listen and get along better with others, pay attentio and be less distracted, and feel happier doing everyday activities. Being mindful is a great skills that allows children to feel less stressed and experience more joy.
Acceptance and Committment Therapy
Acceptance and Committment Therapy (ACT) is a type of mindful psychotherapy that helps children focus on the present anf accept thoughts and feelings without judging or evaluating them. The goal is to help children move past difficult emotions to put their energy and efforts on positive healing instead of dwelling on negative feelings. ACT encourages learning coping strategies that are tailored to a child’s situation and can help them better manage challenging experiences. Children are taught strategies to help them accept situations as they occur without attempting to judge or try to change them. ACT uses mindfulness strategies to help children become more compassionate toward themself and others. By doing so, children can also free themselves from obsessing on negative thoughts so they can begin to heal and find peace.
Behavior Therapy
Behavior Therapy is an intervention aimed at managing problemati thoughts and behaviors that are inadvertently reinforced in a child’s environment. As a result, the undesirable behavior may increase in frequency or intensity. The intent of Behavior Therapy is to reinforce and encourage more desirable behaviors for children and result in more positive feedback from others and more success in various situations. Parents are often crucial to helping children learn strategies to reinforce positive behaviors. Behavior Therapy can be applied to help children better manage in the classroom, at home with family, and when interacting with peers. The therapist and child will often role-play and model more desirable behavior and help children practice applying these behaviors to various situations.
Availability
Anna is available for online appointments on Mondays and Tuesdays in the afternoons and evenings.
Costs
Sign up online for a 45-minute child or adolescent therapy appointment. Registration only takes a few minutes. You will then receive intake forms to sign and directions for attending the appointment.
Do you have out-of-network health insurance benefits? Many commercial and employer PPO health insurance plans do. Contact us to find out how much you can save on the cost of therapy by using your benefits.
Schedule an Appointment Today
Courageous Kids Counseling is an out of network (OON) group practice. As such, fees are due at the time of service. We are happy to help you submit for reimbursement from your out of network benefits. We accept a variety of payment methods, including cash, check, debit card, and credit card, health savings accounts, and flexible health care spending accounts.
Cancellation Policy
It is important to attend appointments consistently in order to see the best results. We understand that our clients sometimes need to cancel their appointments. Please let us know if you are unable to keep your appointment. You will be charged a fee if the session is not canceled with at least 24 hours notice. If you have any questions about our policy, we would be happy to provide more information.
