Anna Marasco

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.