Licensed Clinical Social Worker Anna M. Cox, LCSW Provides Services for the Arkansas Area

Get to know Licensed Clinical Social Worker Anna M. Cox, who serves the Maumelle, Arkansas area where she retired from the Compassion Works for All.

Speciality: Counseling in the Prison System, Counseling Death Row Inmates, Counseling, and Program Development

Bachelor’s Degree: University of Arkansas

Master’s Degree: University of Arkansas

Education: Anna graduated in 1972 with her Bachelors of Arts from University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Wanting to further her education, she then completed her Master’s degree in Social Worker from her alma mater in 1975. Giving her over four decades of experience.

Experience: While now retired, Anna is the founder and was the director of Compassion Works for All, a non-profit healing program for those in prisons, that she established in 2000. From 1993 to 2015 she was the Certified Spiritual advisor for the Arkansas Department of Correction. Between the years of 1976 and 2015 she had a private practice of psychotherapy. There she used psychotherapy to work with families, couples, individuals, groups, those incarcerated, and professional training of medical practitioners and volunteer prison therapists.

Clinical Social Work: Clinical social work is a healthcare profession based on theories and methods of prevention and treatment in providing mental-health/healthcare services, with special focus on behavioral and bio-psychosocial problems and disorders. Clinical social work’s unique attributes include use of the person-in-environment perspective, respect for the primacy of client rights, and strong therapeutic alliance between client and practitioner. The knowledge base of clinical social work includes theories of biological, psychological, and social development; diversity and cultural competency; interpersonal relationships; family and group dynamics; mental disorders; addictions; impacts of illness, trauma, or injury; and the effects of the physical, social, and cultural environment.

Personal: Anna attributes her professional success to her ability to relate. She currently continues to volunteer her time to Compassion Works.

Learn More about Anna M. Cox:

Through the non-profit she founded, https://www.compassionworksforall.org/, where she can be contacted at (501) 508-4334, and is located in Little Rock, AR.

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