About Anita
Anita Cohn is a licensed clinical social worker in Missouri who helps people manage anxiety and other stress-related concerns. She has 21 years of experience and approaches each person as the expert on their own life. Anita encourages small steps and recognizes that reaching out for help takes courage.
She focuses on everyday challenges like anxiety, stress, grief, and depression. She also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, relationship strain, sleep and eating problems, and struggles with self-esteem and anger.
Background and approach
Anita draws on a broad set of approaches to match practical help to each person’s situation. Her work often uses straightforward, talk-based methods to clarify what feels most urgent. She helps clients spot unhelpful thinking and try different ways of coping.
For people with painful memories, she incorporates trauma-focused strategies to reduce the hold those memories have on daily life. Anita also pays attention to life-stage questions and identity concerns, including issues related to LGBT status, aging, adoption and family of origin problems. She brings two decades of clinical experience to these topics while keeping the discussion simple and direct.
For parents she offers help with parenting strain and family-related stress, always aiming to build practical routines and clearer boundaries. Anita’s goal is to help people leave sessions with one or two things they can try before the next meeting.
How Anita’s Methods Fit Online Therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on what matters most to the client and on building a trusting working relationship. It helps people feel heard and guides practical next steps rather than imposing answers. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches concrete tools to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful reactions. This approach is useful for stress, mood changes, and sleep or eating concerns. EMDR and trauma-focused techniques work with distressing memories and the body’s responses to trauma to lower their intensity and reduce symptoms tied to past events.Choosing the best approach is a team effort. Anita will talk with the client about their goals and try methods that fit their needs and comfort level. Together they review what works and adjust the plan over time, mixing short-term skills practice with deeper trauma work when needed.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is low or a camera is not desired, and live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing processing between appointments. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, parenting, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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