Therapy for Real Life Anna Lindberg Cedar, MPA, LCSW

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Therapy for Real Life Anna Lindberg Cedar, MPA, LCSW

Providing adults, teens, and couples with counseling strategies backed by research. LCSW #64284 Do you feel alone and hopeless?

Do you worry about things that are out of your control? Have you tried to make a change on your own, but had difficulty finding another way? I specialize in helping individuals boost coping during important life transitions and periods of stress. I actively listen to your goals and priorities to support you in your process. Because, after all, it is YOUR life. In addition to traditional counseling I offer Self-Care Check-Ups. This kind of consultation offers personalized assessment and feedback for improved wellbeing, balance, and contentment. I help my clients identify personal strengths and harness past successes to accomplish their goals. I am known for giving honest feedback in the context of a warm and trusting therapeutic relationship. I pay close attention to what has and hasn't worked for you before. I bring authenticity to my work and invite you to be your true self throughout the counseling process. My specialties include: self-harm, suicidal thoughts, life transitions, self-esteem, work stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, grief, panic attacks, work stress, partner and relational issues, pregnancy support, parenting and co-parenting, identity issues, search for meaning, post-election stress, substance abuse, and decision-making. You'll find more information about me on my website: www.annacedar.com . License #64284

Please use your crisis resources, including 9-1-1, if you are having an emergency.

11/07/2025

✨How To Get Things Done!✨+ other 💞Skills for Self-Care + Focus💞

Ok IG Fam… Here’s a little preview of the self-care skills that we work on in skills coaching:

We start with the 💙Triangle of Attention💙- It sounds quite simple…

1) 💜Focus your attention💜 like a flashlight 🔦 on 1 achievable goal at a time …

2) 💛Delay Distraction💛 (keep a to-do list and write down every distracting thought eg *Read later!!) and …

3) 💗Build A Bridge To LT Memory 💗 (ie do it over and over again until it feels like “muscle memory” - Me, I didn’t exercise before but NOW I get crabby if I don’t ! It works :)

Again, it sounds “simple”…. But y hat is NOT the same as “easy.” Coaching helps!! 💎 You can do it!

Next, we have 💙Expanding Your Time Horizon💙… We build this skill over time and combine it with other skills like boosting your body budget and learning your limits. Over time you master the ability to zoom out of the stress that it right in front of you to slowly expand your ability to plan self-care forward into meaningful life goals for the future. THIS is the fun part of 🌈 🌈.

The 3rd skill for and that I’ll preview (of many more!) is 💙Shaping A Goal or Mood through Rituals of Connection 💙… This beautiful skill allows you to shape your habits and routine by embodying the culture you wish to live through the art of ritual. We use skills to help you learn what matters most as you build habits that center those priorities in your life. Say you want more movement in your life, Ok - we pick the pharmacy a little farther from your house and you walk there. We start small and expand to profound, meaningful life goals❣️ This is the really, REALLY fun part of therapy!

✨If you could shape your routine one one meaningful way to focus on something that matters to you… What would you pick?✨

Reach out to TherapyForRealLife.com if you’re curious to learn more.

💗Here for you,💗
Anna Lindberg Cedar MPA LCSW LICSW CCP-ADHD
TherapyForRealLife.com

10/27/2025

💗🔥💗 What happens when you pile a buncha into vintage cabins 🛌 for Camp Social Work w …? 🌲🥾🌲

Ummm… 🌈 a GREAT time evidently!!! 🌈

As a burnout prevention specialist for helping professionals, I can’t tell you how awesome it felt to receive profound care and attention myself from those who Really Get It.

I also learned so much more than I expected❣️Ask me about a beautiful intro to MesoAmerican Healing, what social work orgs are ethically required to do when it comes to self-care of their own (!), and many fresh perspectives how to care for oneself in the process of caring for others🔥(yes, in these unprecedented times).

I’m so grateful for the new friends I met and this profession most broadly, especially our focus on . We are 750,000 strong after all. Imagine what could happen if we really Move Our Feet. 🤍

💕Feeling the love! 💕

💌Let’s keep in touch new camp friends!!💌

💛Thank you Camp Social Work❣️💛

🩷Anna Lindberg Cedar MPA LCSW LICSW CCP-ADHD
🩵 TherapyForRealLife.com
💜 WorkshopsForRealLife.com

10/14/2025

✨Therapy For ______ (Real Life)✨

💞 Here for you 💞

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📌 Instant booking 🗓️ annacedar.clientsecure.me

🎧 annacedar.com/podcast 🎧

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10/09/2025

✨New certification, Who dis?!✨

It’s me! 💁‍♀️ I’m excited to share that I am now an ADHD-Certified Clinical Provider. I have been quietly working on this training over the last year and applying best practice with clients across hundreds of therapy hours. 🛋️ It has been amazing to see these skills work in real time and watch lives change because of it. 💞

My ADHD certification is a meaningful accomplishment for me personally because I had heard so many myths about ADHD before getting evidence-based training myself. I had even heard family members claim that ADHD is “not a real diagnosis.” This kind of misinformation leads to severe delays in access to care and further stigma. 😔

ADHD is a real diagnosis, for sure, with real implications. The saddest statistic I learned from my training is that folks with ADHD have a shorter life expectancy by ~11-13 years! Su***de, substance abuse, social rejection, and problems in relationships are very common.

📌 Luckily, the greatest predictor of success for folks with ADHD is early access to a diagnosis and the care that comes with it. I am proud that I can be a safe provider for neurodivergent folks to come to for care and understanding. 🌈

Reach out if you have any questions or want to consult!

🫶

Anna Lindberg Cedar
MPA, LCSW, LICSW, ADHD-CCP
TherapyForRealLife.com

08/06/2025

💓Please send me back to SXSW💓.

SXSW has been a welcome home for me to experiment with new ideas and connect with other creatives. I would love to do it again, this time connecting with other change agents using community models to amplify mental health supports - such as the tiny bakery I just launched as an excuse to hangout / interrupt the chronic loneliness epidemic we’re facing.

You have supported me in the past by upvoting my ideas at SXSW - Let’s do it again!

Please vote for my PanelPicker idea for both SXSW and SXSW EDU. I promise to bring back everything I learn there :)

SXSW 2026 PanelPicker - Vote here:

tinyurl.com/yp8af67w

SXSW EDU 2026 PanelPicker - Vote here:

tinyurl.com/yp8af67w

💞 Thank you! 💞

Anna Lindberg Cedar MPA LCSW LICSW

TherapyForRealLife.com
WorkshopsForRealLife.com

✨Amplifying Mental Health Meetup Workshop Proposal✨

Welcome all change agents seeking to amplify effective mental health care through creative, community-centric solutions. Your meetup is facilitated by Anna Lindberg Cedar, MPA, LICSW, LCSW, a therapist is on a personal mission to make mental health support more available (+ fun!) in everyday spaces through creative means. Egs include: The Therapy For Real Life Podcast, Burnout Prevention HackAThons for the
workplace, Anti-Loneliness Pop-Ups (incl SXSW!) + even a self-care themed hangout bakery that Anna hosts on her front lawn. Get ready to trade your own creative ideas with new friends.

07/21/2025

🎨 recently put a call out to artists to respond to the epidemic … 💪👕💞… So I fully put my heart on my sleeve and did just that! 🥰🎥😳

✨ Because I role model for a living, it is probably my clients who know best that I hope to be when I grow up… 🤫

( 🌈 without quitting my day job!🌈 )

We talk about joy, meaning and purpose all the time (not to brag) ✨ so we’re both used to it. 🤭

🧑‍🎨 I admit it - I’m proud of myself though this time though💖 because … This is the first time I am applying for a grant ✨as an Artist✨. Keep in mind, I am a trained scientist who grew up in a culture that praised high achievement first. Someone else had to tell me a few times (!) before I could hear them that I AM an artist. 🤷‍♀️

💘I can imagine no greater honor and privilege than to partner artistically with the project and the system as an 🧑‍🎨 Anti-Loneliness Social Artist in Residence 🎨.

Since I am already putting my heart 💖on my sleeve/online… (🫣💌✨)…. I may as well let you eavesdrop on my process as well
❤️‍🔥👂❤️‍🔥…

💐 This is what I’ll be up to
💖🫶one way or another 🫶💖… 😘.

🎨Thank you for the encouragement….🎨

💙Those who know me even a teeny bit…💙
(+ how much I care about this subject…💕)

🤞🌈💘🤓🌈🤞

🫣 Do you think I might get it?!? … 🫣

💌🌷💌🌷💌🌷💌

07/11/2025

Sometimes the personal + professional collide in the most beautiful ways❤️‍🔥and tiny dreams come true!

What?! 🥐You opened a tiny bakery?

Yup! I sure did! 👩‍🍳

Short story goes... I don’t have any formal training - I’m a therapist after all. And yet - I am a Try-Hard who is willing to bake anything twice. I won’t serve it unless it is delicious!

As a burnout prevention therapist, it is my job to teach others how to chase joy (+ overcome trauma) using research-backed skills. Hearing other people bring me their personalized examples of profound joy is what keeps me coming back after all these years. 💖 I wouldn’t know what I’m talking about at all though if I didn’t keep my joy practice alive and well. 🌈 This is it - For sure!

I also care a lot about the chronic loneliness crisis we are facing. We all know on a human level how hard loneliness is on our health and what a risk factor it is for political polarization, and even violence. As a therapist - and as a person - I try to do my teeny tiny part in building easy spaces for intentional hanging out - everything from hack-a-thons, retreats, self-care pop-ups, and more ++...

Now, I’m coming back to my social work roots, remembering that people DO show up for community when there are treats around! :)

We have had 2 official Bake + Chills on my front lawn this summer. They filled my heart and were a rare chance to just hangout. We made a bunch of new friends, gave away flowers to the Recently Broken Hearted, and had a bake-themed Story Hour (Rude Cakes, lol).

Psst - If you pay close attention, you’ll notice the intimacy coaching baked right into the menu (eg The I Like You, Like You Cookie, Mindful Joy Cookies, I Gotcha Focaccia...). We’re putting our hearts on our sleeves over here. 💖

If you are in/near South Minneapolis, I personally welcome you to my front lawn for our next Bake + Chill on Saturday, July 19th from 9:30 - 11:30 am . (followed by Bakes every 2wkish :) It wouldn’t be the same without you!

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