About
Annie Baxter is a Licensed Independent Social Worker-Supervisor (LISW-S). Annie began counseling adults and adolescents in 2007. She has worked in a variety of settings including a crisis intervention hotline, multiple community mental health centers, a hospital Weight Management Clinic and several private practices in Mason and West Chester. Annie works with adults and teens dealing with depression, anxiety, trauma, obsessive-compulsive disorder, relationship concerns, identity and esteem crises, spiritual concerns, stress management, and weight management & healthy lifestyle goals. Annie currently provides in-person sessions, telehealth options and outdoor Walk & Talk Therapy sessions in local parks.
Annie works from a faith-based counseling perspective and integrates spiritual principles into a Cognitive Behavioral model of therapy. She enjoys helping people grow and find peace and healing for their relational and emotional concerns through the lens of their faith in Christ. She has a particular passion for helping women navigate the stressors of life transitions and challenges.
Annie makes it her goal to create a safe, warm and non-judgmental environment where clients can process and challenge unhelpful thinking, relationship and behavior patterns. She strives to create a therapeutic relationship that is warm and accepting as she helps clients to grow, heal and thrive in their emotional, physical, relational and spiritual lives. Annie has extensive experience in Trauma Processing Therapy for adult survivors of childhood abuse and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for trauma, mood and anxiety disorders.
Annie is currently working towards her Formation Certificate through the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation’s School of Biblical Counseling.
My Christian Faith and My Professional Practice
At Renew, we provide a safe, caring space for clients seeking professional mental health counseling that remains faithful to their Christian beliefs. We seek to integrate Biblical principles into our clinical work to help clients grow, thrive and find true healing and hope. As a faith-based counseling center, we seek to meet each client where they are on their journey and walk gently and humbly with them through their trials. Our mission is to help clients “be transformed by the renewal of (their) mind” (Romans 12:2)
From Annie:
"I like to use the first few sessions with a client to clearly identify and understand what brings them to counseling. We can explore some concrete coping, relationship and stress management skills. Slowly and gently, we are then ready to begin the hard work of soul searching--figuring out and resolving what the "problem under the problem" is. Where am I stuck? Where is renewal and change needed?"
