About Anita
Anita Adams is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 11 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and trauma. She works from Colorado and offers therapy in English. Anita focuses on practical skills and steady support so people can feel safer in daily life.
Her approach blends structured methods and emotion-focused care. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and build new habits, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach coping skills for intense emotions.
How Anita works
She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for trauma processing when appropriate. Anita often helps people facing grief, anger, or big life changes. She supports those dealing with shame, guilt, impulsivity, and process addictions such as gambling or problematic internet use.
She also helps with communication problems, codependency, and substance use concerns. Sessions emphasize short-term goals and practical steps. Clients work on skills for handling triggers, improving mood, and restoring daily functioning.
Motivational Interviewing is used to strengthen commitment to change and set achievable next steps. Her background includes a focus on post-traumatic stress, first responder issues, and co-occurring concerns where several problems appear together. Anita aims to create clear plans for recovery and coping, and she guides each person at a pace that fits their needs.
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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
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Jealousy
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Approaches for emotional regulation and trauma work
CBT helps identify and change thought patterns that keep problems going. It focuses on practical exercises and homework to reduce anxiety, lift mood, and change unhelpful behavior. DBT emphasizes skills for managing strong emotions and improving distress tolerance. It is useful when people struggle with impulsivity, intense anger, or self-destructive urges. EMDR is a trauma-focused approach that helps process painful memories so they feel less overwhelming and disruptive. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, symptoms, and preferences, then suggest methods to try. Sessions can include skill practice, emotion processing, and step-by-step planning so progress is paced to each person. Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls work well for in-depth sessions that include visual cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines while still using evidence-based approaches.Start online instead of waiting
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