About Anita
Anita Adams is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, and major life changes. She practices from Colorado and brings 11 years of experience to each session. Anita focuses on practical strategies that people can use between appointments to feel steadier day to day.
Her work often begins with clear, short-term goals. She uses tools to reduce intense emotions and to change unhelpful thinking patterns. Sessions may include learning new coping skills for anxiety, steps for addiction recovery, or ways to repair strained relationships.
Background and approach
Anita draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior methods, emotionally-focused work, and EMDR when appropriate. She also uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused tools to help clients find momentum and stay motivated. These methods are selected based on a person’s needs and what feels workable for them.
People come to Anita for help with trauma, grief, anger, low self-esteem, and depression as well as worries about control, codependency, or impulsive behavior. She aims to create a calm, straightforward space for talking through problems and trying new reactions. Her practice emphasizes collaboration.
Clients and Anita set priorities together, track small changes, and adjust the plan as progress is made. Sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules.
Online approaches that help with anxiety and trauma
Many of Anita's methods adapt well to online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; online sessions often include practical exercises and homework to practice between meetings. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance, which can be taught across video or text and practiced during daily life. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing focuses on processing traumatic memories and can be introduced in telehealth sessions when appropriate and agreed upon together.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Anita will discuss options, explain how each method might help, and try approaches that match a client's needs and preferences. The plan can change over time as progress is made and priorities shift.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer therapeutic work and skill coaching, phone calls can be a lower-bandwidth option for check-ins, and live chat or text messaging can support brief check-ins or ongoing encouragement. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Jealousy
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Arizona, Texas
- Languages
- English
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