Anna Sawyer

Anna Sawyer, LICSW, is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker. She graduated with a Bachelors in Psychology from the University of Connecticut and went on to receive a Masters in Social Work from Simmons College. During her graduate studies, Anna worked in an acute psychiatric hospital and at an outpatient clinic serving adolescents diagnosed with major mental illness. She then worked at a women’s prison before taking a position as a clinician at a long-term psychiatric hospital for 4.5 years. Her work in a variety of settings has instilled the importance of meeting clients where they are in order to make change. She has worked with individuals of all genders and identities, families and groups. She has experience supporting clients through life transitions, relationship challenges, major mental illness, complex trauma, anxiety and depression. She happily works with members of the LGBTQ+ community. Anna has had training in CBT and CBT for Psychosis, DBT and motivational interviewing. Her therapeutic style is warm and empathetic with an approach grounded in an attachment-focused and psychodynamic perspective. Anna believes each of her clients are the experts of their own experience and that the therapeutic relationship is a critical tool for healing and growth. Anna approaches her sessions from a place of compassion in an effort to increase clients’ abilities to create this for themselves.