About Anastasia
Anastasia Maravelias-Kakos is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 22 years of clinical experience based in New Jersey. She draws on long practice across independent practice, schools, and community settings to help people feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. Her tone is warm and straightforward, aimed at people ready to take the first step toward feeling better.
Her work focuses on stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
She also helps with caregiver stress, communication problems, isolation and loneliness, and challenges like panic attacks and social anxiety. Sessions are meant to be practical and tailored to each person’s situation. She uses a mix of approaches that include cognitive-behavioral ideas, rational-emotive concepts, and humanistic principles.
That means clients can expect to talk through thoughts and behaviors, practice new ways of reacting, and reflect on values and strengths. Anastasia keeps sessions interactive and focused on real-life changes. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every conversation.
The therapist helps people set clear goals and builds a plan that matches their needs. The pace and methods are adjusted as work progresses. People who reach out will find a counselor who listens closely and offers straightforward tools for daily life.
Anastasia aims to support and empower people as they work toward a more fulfilling life.
How Anastasia’s Approaches Work Online
Anastasia uses cognitive-behavioral ideas to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that keep stress and anxiety active. That often involves short exercises, practicing new responses, and setting small behavior goals to see practical change. She also draws on humanistic principles that focus on each person's values and strengths, helping people build self-compassion and clearer direction in life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Anastasia will talk with each person about their needs and goals and pick techniques that fit. She adapts methods as progress is made so the plan stays useful and relevant, and she encourages collaborative decisions about what to try next.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversation, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging work well for brief updates, writing through thoughts, or fitting support into a busy day. These options help people keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and other responsibilities.
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- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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