Luanne Maniacek, LCSW

Luanne Maniacek is a licensed clinical social worker with four decades of experience supporting people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, family and relationship challenges, and caregiving concerns. She holds an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - and is a Certified Alcohol and Drug Addictions Counselor, qualifications that reflect long-term work with substance use issues as well as a broad range of life stressors.

Luanne practices from a strength-based, humanistic perspective, helping clients identify existing resources and develop new skills to manage difficult emotions and situations. Her approach blends empathy and support with gentle challenge, encouraging meaningful change while respecting each person s values and pace. She also uses interpersonal methods to explore how relationships and history shape present difficulties.

For people struggling with addiction she supports either a disease model or a harm-reduction approach, choosing the path that is clinically appropriate and aligns with the client s goals. She is skilled in motivational interviewing and in reading nuance in conversation, which helps uncover motivations and barriers that may not be obvious at first.

Over her career she has supervised graduate-level therapy interns and counselors in community mental health settings and has led crisis intervention teams. Her first priority is to understand a person s perspective, history, expectations, and goals, and she emphasizes ongoing, open communication about progress and next steps.