Anne Wennerstrand (she/hers)

Anne Wennerstrand, MS, MSW, LCSW-R, is a clinical social worker, psychotherapist, supervisor, and educator with nearly three decades of experience working with adolescents and adults. Her approach is depth-oriented, contemporary psychodynamic, feminist-relational, trauma-informed, and weight-neutral, integrating relational and psychoanalytic perspectives with mindfulness, DBT, IFS, and embodied approaches.

Anne’s clinical work attends to both the intrapsychic and the systemic. She is interested in how our inner worlds are shaped within relationships and families and by the larger cultural, social, political, and institutional contexts in which we live. Her work explores the intersections of identity, culture, family history, power, gender, embodiment, and lived experience, with particular attention to how broader systems can become internalized and influence our relationships with ourselves and others. She works collaboratively with clients to understand both the personal meanings of their experience and the environments in which those meanings have developed.

Her areas of particular interest include eating and body image concerns; life transitions; occupational stress; trauma and the enduring effects of the the pandemic; and the experiences of people working in high-stress, caregiving, and creative professions. She has extensive experience working with healthcare professionals, first responders, professional dancers, musicians, artists, and others whose work places unusual demands on the body, identity, relationships, and emotional life. She is certified in Critical Incident Stress Management and has provided care via The Therapy Aid Coalition providing care to essential workers and others affected by collective trauma.

Anne also works with parents and families seeking to interrupt intergenerational patterns around dieting, body shame, gender, and identity, and welcomes people across the gender identity spectrum. Across her work, she is particularly interested in the ways individual psychological experience intersects with family systems, culture, social structures, and historical moment.

In addition to her clinical practice, Anne has extensive experience in clinical supervision, teaching, consultation, and community engagement. She has been affiliated with the Women’s Therapy Centre Institute as faculty and consultant and brings a feminist-relational perspective to both her clinical and educational work. Her broader community and public-service work reflects a longstanding interest in understanding mental health not only as an individual concern, but within the social conditions and systems that shape people’s lives.