About Anila
Dr. Anila Malik is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 36 years in mental health. She practices from Georgia and speaks English, Punjabi, and Urdu.
Her background includes work in counseling, substance use settings, and agency contracts alongside independent practice experience. She meets people where they are and focuses on clear, practical steps. Sessions tend to center on what feels most pressing - such as anxiety, depression, or stress - and on skills to manage day-to-day challenges.
Background and approach
She also supports people coping with trauma, addictions, relationship concerns, grief, and life transitions. Her clinical style draws on client-centered methods that prioritize the person's perspective. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going.
Dialectical behavior strategies and emotion-focused ideas are available when emotional regulation or relationship patterns are central. Dr. Malik has long experience assessing and working with mood disorders, obsessive-compulsive concerns, trauma, and dual diagnoses involving substance use.
She has supervised interns and managed clinical services, which informs a practical and organized approach to care. She aims to tailor treatment plans to each person’s needs and strengths. People seeking help can expect straightforward conversation, a focus on coping tools, and an effort to set manageable goals.
Communication in Punjabi or Urdu is an option for those who prefer it.
Approach and online options for therapy
Dr. Malik uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person's unique experience and priorities, encouraging open listening and collaborative goal setting. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is used to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and sleeping or eating problems. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills when regulation and coping strategies are needed for intense emotions or relationship stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, then suggest methods that fit those needs. That collaboration helps shape a plan that can evolve as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that is helpful. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a work break or a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging give a way to touch base between longer sessions or to communicate when writing feels easier. These options are meant to make therapy more accessible and to match the practical needs of different schedules and comfort levels.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English, Punjabi, Urdu
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