About Anastasia
Anastasia Ingram-Flores is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in California. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, mood concerns like depression and bipolar, and life transitions. Her manner is respectful and compassionate, and she aims to create practical steps you can use between sessions.
She draws on nine years of clinical experience to shape conversations and plans around each person's needs. Sessions are collaborative - she listens first, then helps set goals and small, achievable actions.
Background and approach
Many clients work on coping skills, motivation, and clearer communication to reduce daily overwhelm. Anastasia uses straightforward tools from client-centered work and evidence-informed methods to build skills. She often includes mindfulness practice to calm the body and attention, and parts of dialectical behavior therapy to manage intense emotions and reduce reactivity.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques help people find motivation and take realistic next steps. Her approach addresses a wide range of concerns beyond anxiety, such as grief, addictions, career stress, and relationship patterns like attachment issues or codependency. She pays attention to how culture, identity, and discrimination affect wellbeing and choices.
Conversations are paced to match what someone can handle right now. Anastasia helps clients break large problems into small tasks and tracks progress together. She encourages steady, real-world changes rather than quick fixes.
Approaches that translate well to online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and meeting people where they are. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects concerns, and helps set goals that feel doable. This approach works well for anxiety, low self-esteem, and navigating life changes.Mindfulness therapy trains simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and increase present-moment awareness. Those practices can be guided during a video call or supported with short audio or text prompts between sessions. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT-informed skills, teaches concrete tools for handling intense emotions and managing panic or strong impulsivity. Skills practice and brief check-ins fit naturally into phone or messaging formats.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals, comfort with different formats, and daily routines. Changes are paced to what the client can manage and adjusted over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and guided exercises, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and messaging or chat supports quick check-ins and ongoing skill practice. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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