- 30 years experience
- Grief and loss focus
- Practical skills approach
About Anita
Anita Aasen is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience helping people navigate major life shifts. She practices from New York and brings a calm, practical presence to sessions. Anita focuses on issues such as grief, stress, self esteem, anxiety, depression, and trauma and abuse.
She approaches therapy as a collaborative process. Anita listens first, then helps clients name what matters and set realistic goals. She often uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and skills-based work to ease overwhelming feelings and improve daily coping.
Anita also draws on client-centered principles that keep each person’s pace and values front and center. She encourages finding small sources of gratitude, using humor when helpful, and connecting with personal meaning. Recovery work and support for addictions is informed by her experience with 12-step and other recovery programs.
Her background includes grief-focused training and long experience with end-of-life and hospice-related concerns. She helps people who are coping with loss, serious illness, or the stresses of caregiving to make sense of painful changes and to find ways forward.
Anita combines practical strategies with a belief in resilience. She works with practical goals like better sleep, calmer reactions, clearer communication, and improved self worth. To begin, readers can use the site continue button on this profile and complete the brief matching questionnaire to schedule according to availability.
She approaches therapy as a collaborative process. Anita listens first, then helps clients name what matters and set realistic goals. She often uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and skills-based work to ease overwhelming feelings and improve daily coping.
Anita also draws on client-centered principles that keep each person’s pace and values front and center. She encourages finding small sources of gratitude, using humor when helpful, and connecting with personal meaning. Recovery work and support for addictions is informed by her experience with 12-step and other recovery programs.
Her background includes grief-focused training and long experience with end-of-life and hospice-related concerns. She helps people who are coping with loss, serious illness, or the stresses of caregiving to make sense of painful changes and to find ways forward.
Anita combines practical strategies with a belief in resilience. She works with practical goals like better sleep, calmer reactions, clearer communication, and improved self worth. To begin, readers can use the site continue button on this profile and complete the brief matching questionnaire to schedule according to availability.