Holistic Jungian therapist specializing in trauma and relationships
I am a licensed clinical social worker with over ten years of experience working in trauma, dual diagnosis, and addiction. I like to take a humanistic, client-centered approach that explores conceptualizing your experience, considering behaviors or maladaptive coping mechanisms (such as substance use, self-harming, emotional dysregulation, etc.) to be learned skills of survival and not who the person is. I maintain the belief that the client is trying their best, no matter how they show up to session. I invite your messy, your discomfort, and the dark pieces that you work to hide, in addition to your successes, joy, and excitement. I believe that we all have darkness and light and it is important to be compassionate to both of those sides. My experience is wide in various diagnoses, including PTSD, complicated grief and loss, gender identity, anxiety, depression, ADD/ADHD, suicidality, autism, addictions, personality disorders, OCD, as well as relationship issues, transition/change, and meaning and purpose. I like to consider the different layers of each person and recognize that we are complicated creatures. Therefore, I like to adapt my approach based on what you need and not recite a list of cliched coping skills. You know the ones…”have you tried deep breathing?” My primary focus is to meet you where you are and support you in working towards your goals that you identify for yourself. I am here as your advocate, your support. I’m like the inflatable gutter bumpers at the bowling alley. I’m not going to do the work for you, but I will help you and believe in your ability to get yourself where you need and want to be.
I love my work, and also find passion in writing (I hold a Master’s of Fine Arts in creative writing), and am an avid equestrian. In my spare time, I can be found with the only man I will ever tattoo on my body—my horse, Henry.
I really look forward to working with you—you are doing an amazing first step by searching for a therapist that matches your needs. I hope that you give yourself MAJOR CREDIT for the hard work you are currently doing as you take this necessary step in your healing process.
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Anna Marasco is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Utah with 11 years of experience focused on trauma, dual diagnosis, and addiction, along with work addressing stress, anxiety, grief, and depression. She brings a humanistic, client-centered orientation that prioritizes understanding each person’s experience and the context for behaviors that may have developed as coping strategies.
She frames self-harming or substance use and emotional dysregulation as learned survival skills rather than core aspects of a person’s identity. Anna maintains the belief that people are doing the best they can, regardless of how they arrive at a session, and she invites both the difficult, hidden parts of experience and the successes, joy, and excitement into the therapeutic space. She emphasizes compassion for both struggle and strength.
Her clinical background includes working with a wide range of diagnoses and concerns such as PTSD, complicated grief and loss, gender identity matters, anxiety, depression, ADD/ADHD, suicidality, autism, addictions, personality disorders, OCD, relationship issues, life transitions, and questions of meaning and purpose. Rather than offering a fixed list of techniques, she adapts her approach to the layered complexity of each person and avoids relying solely on clichéd coping suggestions like “have you tried deep breathing?” Her primary focus is meeting clients where they are and supporting them toward the goals they identify for themselves.
Anna serves as an advocate and steady support in the work of healing – like the inflatable gutter bumpers at a bowling alley: she will help guide and believe in a person’s capacity to reach their aims, without doing the work for them. She also brings personal passions to her life outside of practice; she holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and is an avid equestrian. In her spare time she can often be found with her horse, Henry, whom she affectionately describes as the only “man” she will ever tattoo on her body. Anna looks forward to working with prospective clients and acknowledges that reaching out for help is an important step; she encourages people to give themselves major credit for taking this part of their healing journey.
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