Annisha Dunaway, LCSW
Licensed in Virginia · 6 years in practice
Annisha Dunaway is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with six years of clinical experience.
License and registration
- LCSW, Virginia
- 0904011770 · expires June 2026
- NPI
- 1316564065 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 6
- Languages
- English
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About Annisha
Annisha Dunaway is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with six years of clinical experience. She brings a practical, down-to-earth approach and focuses on helping adults and teens manage anxiety, depression, stress, and major life changes. Annisha also addresses trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and parenting challenges.
She draws on several evidence-informed methods rather than one fixed model. Sessions are collaborative and guided by what the client wants to achieve.
Background and approach
Annisha aims to be warm, direct, and encouraging while helping people take steps they can sustain between sessions. In practice she mixes skills-based work and reflective conversation. Clients can expect to learn tools for managing strong emotions, shifting unhelpful thinking patterns, and building more consistent routines.
She also supports people facing career strain, blended family issues, fatherhood concerns, and recovery from domestic violence or divorce. Annisha’s background includes military service and work as a victim specialist with law enforcement, which shapes her understanding of trauma and crisis response. She uses that experience to offer steady guidance for clients who feel overwhelmed or stuck.
Her work is straightforward and goal-focused. Annisha helps people clarify what matters to them, try small changes, and track progress over time. She welcomes questions about approach and pacing during the first sessions.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Annisha lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Annisha names
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
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Online support
How Annisha’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify their values and take small actions toward them even when emotions are strong. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and when life changes feel overwhelming. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing unhelpful thinking and testing new, more balanced thoughts while practicing behavioral changes. That approach helps with anxiety, low mood, and coping skills. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental relationship and encourages the client to lead the pace and topics of sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Annisha talks with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. She blends methods so the plan fits the client rather than forcing a single model, and she checks in as progress is made to adjust techniques or focus areas.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for in-depth work and learning practical strategies together. Phone sessions can fit a shorter check-in or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging suit quick updates, homework prompts, or people who prefer typed communication. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting challenges, compassion fatigue, and life transitions.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her sessions are collaborative and goal-focused. She combines practical skills coaching with reflective conversation and direct feedback.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has six years of experience as a clinician and brings that experience to work with adults and teens facing a range of concerns.
What credentials and region apply to her practice?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW - licensed in Virginia and practices with clients located in that state.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Annisha offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to meet different scheduling and communication needs.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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