About Anita
Anita Tanner is a licensed master social worker (LMSW) with 40 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and mood disorders. She focuses on practical steps people can use today to feel steadier and more hopeful. Anita listens with warmth and offers clear guidance for coping with life changes and relationship strain.
She works with adults facing loss, midlife shifts, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and the heavy tiredness of compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
In sessions she addresses problems such as abandonment, control issues, low self-esteem, and isolation by breaking concerns down into manageable parts. Conversations aim to reduce overwhelm and to build small skills that make a real day-to-day difference. Anita draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to spot unhelpful thoughts and develop new responses.
She uses acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and take meaningful action, and client-centered listening so people feel heard while they plan next steps. Mindfulness exercises are taught when helpful to calm the body and focus attention. Her approach is collaborative and paced to the individual.
She helps people set short-term goals and practice skills between sessions. Many clients find this steady, step-by-step work useful during transitions like aging, illness, bereavement, or changing relationship needs. Anita practices from Michigan and offers sessions in English.
She accepts international clients and works via video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Therapy uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How her approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people name what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. Online sessions can include guided exercises to clarify priorities and plan actions for everyday life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on noticing thought patterns and practicing different responses; in remote sessions this often means working through examples together and trying out new behaviors between meetings. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and building rapport so the person feels understood; that warm, respectful stance guides conversations whether meeting by video or phone.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Anita will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That might mean mixing ACT and CBT tools, using mindfulness practices on hard days, or keeping sessions conversational while teaching concrete skills. The plan can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical access. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports short updates or ongoing reflection. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to practice new skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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