About Anita
Anita Aasen is a licensed clinical social worker with three decades of practice. She is credentialed as an LCSW and a LICSW and practices from New York. Anita focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, grief, depression, or big life changes.
Anita listens first and aims to make sessions feel straightforward and practical. She uses everyday language to help people name what is happening and find next steps that make sense for their lives.
Background and approach
Her work often addresses stress, self-esteem, relationship strain, and issues related to addiction and compassion fatigue. She draws on approaches like client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral strategies to help people manage thoughts and behaviors that get in the way. Dialectical skills are used when emotions feel intense and steadying tools are needed.
Anita also brings solution-focused techniques to sessions so people can try small, achievable changes between meetings. Anita has long experience supporting those facing serious losses, life transitions, and challenges tied to illness or caregiving. She also helps people who are navigating career stress, parenting strain, sleep problems, and concerns tied to identity or multicultural experiences.
ADHD is listed among her focus areas and may be part of the work she does with clients. Her style is warm and pragmatic. She looks for strengths and practical steps, and she encourages people to use humor, gratitude, and personal values as sources of resilience.
Anita welcomes work with international clients and conducts sessions in English.
Approaches and online options that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and helping people find their own answers; it’s useful when someone needs space to name feelings and make choices that match their values. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and offers clear techniques to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, provides emotion-regulation and distress-tolerance tools when feelings feel intense and relationships are strained.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Anita will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and she adjusts strategies as needs change over time. The plan can mix practical skills, problem-solving, and supportive listening to match what matters most to the client.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls let people maintain face-to-face connection when that’s helpful. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging offer flexible ways to communicate between meetings and to get steady support on a day-to-day basis.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New York, Maine, Vermont, Utah
- Languages
- English
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