Fennisha Gardner, LCSW

Fennisha Gardner is an Alaska LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years of experience. She helps people who are dealing with relationship strain, family conflict, trauma, anger, depression, anxiety, stress, and related concerns. Her work also covers issues such as parenting, self-esteem, addictions, grief, and challenges connected to young adulthood and women's issues.

Gardner draws on practical, skills-based approaches to help people notice patterns that keep problems stuck. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy strategies to build emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills, and Solution-Focused Therapy to set small, achievable goals.

Sessions are conversational and action-oriented. She focuses on clear steps and skills clients can try between meetings. That might look like tracking triggers, practicing short behavioral experiments, or rehearsing new communication phrases for a difficult conversation.

Her background is in social work with families and youth at risk, which shaped a direct style for working through hard topics. Gardner pays attention to safety and boundaries while helping people tackle issues like domestic violence, infidelity, blended family stress, and caregiver burnout.

People who pick her want straightforward tools for managing anger, repairing relationships, or reducing anxiety and depression. She asks practical questions, helps set measurable goals, and supports follow-through so progress can be noticed over time.

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