(Angie) Anjanette Winkler

(Angie) Anjanette Winkler is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Missouri with 21 years of experience. She chose counseling because she believes people can recover and grow after hardship. She focuses on trauma and how early experiences shape behavior and relationships.

Anjanette frames therapy as a partnership. She treats the person as the expert on their own life and brings clinical skills to add perspective. She aims to create a space of acceptance and respect while gently encouraging forward movement at a pace the client can manage.

Her work often addresses stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, and addiction. She also supports people facing grief, anger, low self-esteem, bipolar mood challenges, ADHD, and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and first responder issues.

Anjanette uses a range of approaches to fit each person's needs. She draws on Trauma-Focused Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered techniques, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and mindfulness practices. Her style mixes practical strategies with chances to reflect on patterns and emotions.

She works with adults, couples, families, and children and has experience in crisis intervention and stabilization. Anjanette describes her role as offering hope, reducing stigma around mental health and addiction, and helping people build skills to move forward.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Trauma-Focused Therapy focuses on how past harm affects current thoughts, emotions, and behavior and uses targeted strategies to address those effects. This approach can help people coping with trauma, abuse, and related symptoms by working through traumatic memories and learning new ways to manage triggers.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shaped patterns in close connections. It helps people understand attachment needs, improve communication, and repair relationship patterns that cause distress.

Client-Centered Therapy centers on the person's own experience, giving time for reflection and exploration while the therapist follows the client's lead and offers supportive feedback.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then adapt methods over time in a collaborative way.

Confirm specific online session options before booking, as formats are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Many people find that talking from a familiar setting helps them focus, and therapists can combine practical skills training with reflective work just as they would in person.