About Anita
Anita Aasen is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience. She practices in New York and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and related life changes. Anita speaks English and works with adults facing a wide range of concerns.
She uses straightforward, practical conversations to help people sort through sudden losses, career shifts, and relationship strain. Sessions often include problem-solving, coping skills, and ways to reduce overwhelming anxiety.
Background and approach
Anita draws on approaches that emphasize collaboration and clear steps you can try between meetings. Her background includes long experience in substance use settings and familiarity with recovery programs such as 12-step and SMART Recovery. That practical history informs how she supports people wrestling with addictions or relapse worries, and how she helps partners and parents navigate tense moments.
Anita pays attention to grief and end-of-life issues, including hospice and cancer-related concerns. She also helps people explore life purpose, multicultural challenges, postpartum adjustment, and seasonal mood changes. Her work often blends talking, skill-building, and finding everyday routines that bring relief.
Clients can expect a warm, direct style that values humor, small daily gratitudes, and personal strengths. Anita aims to help people identify manageable goals, build coping tools, and move toward clearer next steps in life.
How Anita’s approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and working at the client’s pace. It helps when someone needs a trusting space to talk through grief, anxiety, or big life choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors tied to anxiety and depression and teaches practical skills to change patterns that keep problems going. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers concrete techniques for managing intense emotions, handling conflict, and improving coping in high-stress moments.Deciding which approach to use is part of the work. Anita will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together the therapist and client pick strategies that fit the situation and adjust them as progress is made. This collaborative process helps tailor sessions for anxiety, grief, or relationship concerns.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a simpler option with lower bandwidth needs. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to check in between meetings or to fit brief sessions into a busy day. These formats make it possible to maintain continuity of care across time zones and changing schedules while focusing on practical skill-building and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New York, Maine, Vermont, Utah
- Languages
- English
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