About Anita
Anita Thomas-Bua is a licensed counselor with over 20 years in the human services. She practices as an LCPC and an LPC and helps people who are coping with anxiety, phobias, grief, depression, trauma, and life transitions. Her approach is patient and direct, aimed at helping people find clearer next steps.
She describes her style as warm and interactive. Sessions focus on practical discussion and real-world skills rather than jargon.
Background and approach
Anita blends listening with strategies drawn from cognitive behavioral approaches and emotion-focused work to address unhelpful thinking and strong feelings. Clients can expect support for relationship concerns, parenting stress, work and career challenges, and issues with self-esteem or body image. She also offers help for people facing caregiving burdens, chronic illness, or the long-term effects of trauma and domestic violence.
Anita has experience across the lifespan, including work with adolescents, adults, and older adults. Her background includes psychotherapy, counseling, and life coaching. Anita often uses motivational interviewing techniques to help people clarify goals and take small steps toward change.
She also draws on Jungian ideas when exploring personal meaning and patterns that repeat across a person’s life. People who choose Anita will find a therapist who expects collaboration. She aims to educate and empower clients so they can restore balance in mind, body, and spirit.
Anita welcomes conversations about practical goals and real improvements in day-to-day life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person’s experience and offering empathetic support so clients can find their own solutions; it helps when someone needs acceptance and clearer self-direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns, which is useful for anxiety, phobias, and mood concerns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and process core emotions and improve how they connect with others, which can ease relationship and intimacy issues.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to figure out which methods fit best based on current needs, goals, and preferences. That process may include trying different techniques and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let the therapist and client meet face to face for longer sessions, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, shorter reflections, or moments when writing is easier. These options make it simpler to keep continuity of care across schedules and time zones while still focusing on skill-building and emotional processing.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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