About Anita
Anita Aasen is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience. She practices as an LCSW and LICSW and brings steady, practical support to people facing big life shifts. Anita works from New York and speaks English.
She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and self-esteem. She also helps people coping with trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, compassion fatigue, bipolar disorder, and sleep problems. Additional areas include parenting strains, communication and family problems, postpartum depression, and life purpose questions.
How Anita works
Anita uses straightforward methods such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral tools, dialectical behavior ideas, solution-focused planning, and the Gottman Method for relationship concerns. Sessions make space for problem solving, skills practice, and clearer next steps. She also draws on her experience with substance abuse recovery and end-of-life and hospice matters.
Her approach is practical and humane. Anita looks for strengths that have helped people through hard times and builds on them. She encourages small, manageable changes, and she also values humor and gratitude as part of healing.
People meet with her by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits the person’s timing. The subscription can be canceled at any time.
Anita lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Anita works with
The areas below are the ones Anita selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Approaches to change and how online therapy fits
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s perspective and priorities. It creates space for people to talk and be heard while the therapist follows their lead and helps them find what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It includes practical exercises to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and change unhelpful habits.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Anita will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then tailor an approach. She often blends person-centered listening with CBT skills or solution-focused steps to match what someone needs right now.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how and when people connect. Video calls let the conversation feel most like an in-person session. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat or text-based messaging can fit into busy days, help track progress between meetings, or provide a shorter way to touch base. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily life while using the approaches above to address grief, anxiety, relationship concerns, and practical coping skills.
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