About Anthony
Anthony Vario is a licensed clinical social worker who combines thoughtful listening with practical tools. He draws on several evidence-informed approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, career challenges, and changes in life circumstances. His tone is warm and reflective while keeping sessions focused and usable.
Anthony uses clear, straightforward conversation to map out what feels stuck. He helps people notice patterns, try small behavior changes, and build skills for day-to-day coping.
Background and approach
Sessions often include goal-setting, exercises to shift unhelpful thinking, and mindful practices to calm the body. He works with concerns related to self-esteem, intimacy, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and issues common in LGBT communities. Additional areas he addresses include abandonment, communication problems, commitment issues, and isolation.
He also supports people navigating divorce, caregiving stress, guilt, and forgiveness. Anthony has six years of clinical experience and holds LCSW and LICSW credentials. He practices in Rhode Island and conducts sessions in English.
His approach balances empathy with concrete strategies so clients leave with something they can use between sessions. Clients can expect a collaborative style that focuses on what matters to them. Anthony helps people clarify values, identify manageable steps, and build skills for long-term change.
He aims to help people feel more connected to themselves and more confident in daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters and take small steps toward those values. It mixes practical action with noticing thoughts and feelings so anxiety and avoidance get less control over daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behaviors that keep problems going, which can be especially useful for stress and anxiety symptoms.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist listens to a person's goals, preferences, and life context before deciding how to combine methods. Clients work together with the therapist to try techniques, compare what helps, and adjust the plan based on what feels useful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer sessions for deep work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a session needs to fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or steady support between longer sessions. These options make it possible to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel while using approaches like ACT and CBT in each format.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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