About Ann Trench, MSSW, LICSW
I believe that we all do the best we can with the skills that we have. Sometimes, however, those skills only get us so far, and we need new ones. I teach those new skills in both an educational format and through the therapeutic relationship. I am an attentive, empathetic therapist who pays special attention to how clients’ view their lives in order to provide treatment that is effective and makes sense to them. I enjoy working with people of all backgrounds, cultures and orientations and consider it an honor to be my clients’ therapist. I am also a licensed supervisor and enjoy providing clinical supervision to clinicians new in the field.
I am also the individual and group therapist for the “Why Can’t I Stop Eating?” program for binge eating disorder.
I have practiced as a clinical social worker and therapist for over 20 years. My training and work with clients draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy, (DBT), Eating Disorder therapies, Mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Grief Therapy.
During my career I have worked with emotionally and behaviorally dysregulated adolescents in residential therapy, provided eating disorder treatment in Intensive Day Programming and the outpatient setting, provided therapy for clients with end-of-life issues in hospice, provided clinical services to families and children in the field of adoption as well as practiced therapy in a general practice setting. Within these settings my clients have had a range of mental health concerns, including, but not limited to: depression, anxiety, substance abuse or dependence, Schizophrenia or other thought disorders, Bipolar disorder, parenting, infertility, eating disorders, grief, attachment issues, Borderline Personality Disorder and adjustment disorders.