About Anastasia
Anastasia Arceneaux uses a client-centered, practical approach to therapy. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor and brings 17 years of experience helping people cope with everyday stress and bigger life changes. She speaks plainly, listens closely, and focuses on what will help a person feel steadier and more able to handle challenges.
Her work addresses anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and parenting stresses. She also supports people dealing with ADHD, addictions, relationship and family concerns, grief, anger, self-esteem, and career issues.
Background and approach
Additional areas she attends to include adoption and foster care concerns, attachment issues, caregiver strain, codependency, and domestic violence effects. Anastasia blends Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness techniques. She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and Motivational Interviewing when appropriate.
In sessions she focuses on clear goals, practical strategies, and the person’s own strengths. She has experience across multiple settings working with children, adolescents, and adults, and she values building a trusting therapeutic relationship. Anastasia aims to make therapy a collaborative process where people feel heard and guided toward manageable change.
Her practice in Louisiana emphasizes steady progress rather than quick fixes. Sessions move at a person’s pace while targeting specific problems like coping with life transitions, parenting strain, or patterns that cause repeated stress. The goal is to help people build skills and confidence for daily life.
How Anastasia’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. The therapist follows the person’s lead, reflects what they say, and helps them discover their own solutions. This approach helps when someone needs acceptance and support while sorting through hard choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses clear exercises and practice to change unhelpful thinking and develop new coping skills. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used to reduce the emotional impact of traumatic memories. It involves structured recall along with guided bilateral stimulation to help reprocess difficult events and reduce their intensity.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Sessions can blend techniques or shift focus as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people work face-to-face when that is helpful. Phone sessions or live chat are good for shorter check-ins or when camera time is not desired. Text-based messaging supports ongoing contact and brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while keeping treatment consistent and goal-oriented.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English