Anna Jankowska

Anna Jankowska is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) and the Clinical Director of the Counseling Center of Illinois in Chicago. She is also a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC), a Certified Employee Assistance Professional (CEAP), and a DOT-qualified Substance Abuse Professional (SAP).

With more than 30 years of experience, she has helped people understand the pain beneath their struggles — and heal what lies underneath. Her writing sits at the intersection of trauma and addiction, and speaks to readers who want to know why they keep numbing, quitting, or falling into all-or-nothing patterns.

She writes the way she works with clients: with warmth, honesty, and no judgment. Her books take what she has learned across decades in the therapy room and turn it into clear, practical guidance you can start using today — because she believes lasting change begins not with willpower, but with understanding, and that no one is beyond healing.