About Anita
Anita Thomas-Bua is a licensed counselor with more than 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. She is an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and holds a Wisconsin Licensed Professional Counselor credential. Her work also includes life coaching and support for mood disorders and other challenges that affect daily life.
She favors a warm and interactive style. Sessions are grounded in respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
Background and approach
Anita makes space for people to tell their story and helps them find practical steps forward. Her approach draws on client-centered work that emphasizes the person in front of her. She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and emotionally-focused tools to strengthen close bonds.
Jungian perspectives and relationship-oriented methods are woven in when they suit the person's goals. Anita has experience with adults, adolescents, and geriatric populations from her years in human services and counseling. She also supports concerns such as grief, parenting stress, ADHD, caregiver strain, chronic illness, eating and body image worries, and career questions.
People who meet with her can expect clear, direct conversation about goals and steps to reach them. Anita aims to educate and empower clients so they can restore balance in mind, body, and spirit. She approaches change as a process that builds strength through small, steady efforts.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the individual's experience and aims to build trust and self-direction through empathic listening and collaborative goal-setting. It helps people feel heard and find their own solutions for stress, anxiety, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. It offers clear strategies to test unhelpful beliefs and develop new coping skills for anxiety, depression, and mood concerns.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy targets emotional patterns in close relationships and helps people improve connection, communicate needs more clearly, and repair bond ruptures when intimacy or communication is a struggle.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adapt methods to fit the client's needs in a collaborative way.
Online therapy makes scheduling and consistency easier by offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper sessions that benefit from seeing facial cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick updates, journaling between sessions, or when writing helps process thoughts. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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