About Anthony
Anthony Clark is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 27 years of clinical experience based in Virginia. He helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, mood changes, trauma and abuse, and ADHD. He also supports people dealing with relationship strains, parenting challenges, grief, addiction, and anger.
His approach is practical and down-to-earth. Sessions are relaxed and conversational. He listens first, then works with each person to set clear, achievable goals.
Tools are chosen to match what a person needs that week.
Background and approach
Anthony combines several approaches to fit a person rather than forcing a single method. He uses client-centered listening to understand what matters most. He brings cognitive-behavioral and dialectical techniques to help manage thoughts, behaviors, and strong emotions.
Emotionally-focused and existential ideas guide deeper work about meaning, values, and relationships. Over nearly three decades he has worked in hospitals, residential settings, homes, and schools. That variety shaped a flexible way of working that adapts to crises and everyday life alike.
He emphasizes skill-building so people leave sessions with new ways to cope. People who reach out can expect a respectful, compassionate atmosphere. Anthony aims to help people regain stability, improve communication, and rebuild confidence.
His practice style centers on collaboration, steady support, and practical steps forward.
How Anthony’s Approaches Work Online
Anthony uses client-centered work to ground sessions in what matters most to each person. That approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping people name their priorities so sessions stay relevant. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, offers clear tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can reduce anxiety and lift mood through practical exercises and homework.He also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills when feelings run high. DBT techniques can be helpful for managing intense anger, mood swings, and relational conflict. Finding the right mix of these approaches is part of the work together; Anthony will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and pace.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing reminders and brief coaching. These options offer flexibility so people can keep therapy consistent while juggling work, family, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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