About Anastasia
Anastasia Maravelias-Kakos is a licensed professional counselor practicing in New Jersey with 22 years of experience. She draws on long experience across independent practice, schools, and community settings to help people facing hard moments. Her manner is warm and interactive, and she aims to make sessions direct and understandable.
She helps people manage stress, anxiety, and panic attacks by breaking worries into small, manageable steps. She supports those dealing with grief, depression, low self-esteem, and big life changes.
Background and approach
Her work also addresses caregiver stress, isolation and loneliness, communication problems, and the emotional fallout of divorce and separation. Her approach blends cognitive-behavioral methods with rational-emotive ideas and humanistic listening. That means she uses practical tools to change unhelpful thoughts, challenges rigid beliefs, and values the person’s own goals and strengths.
Sessions focus on realistic strategies people can use between meetings. Anastasia emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in conversations. She and a client build a tailored plan that fits the client’s situation and pace.
Therapy is collaborative and practical, with attention to what the person needs right now. She offers talking and skills practice aimed at steady progress rather than quick fixes. For people tired of feeling stuck, she provides steady support and concrete steps toward more confidence and better coping.
How Anastasia’s Approaches Work Online
Her work combines cognitive-behavioral techniques and humanistic listening. Cognitive-behavioral methods focus on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety, panic attacks, and low mood. Humanistic listening centers on understanding a person’s experience and building on their strengths to support motivation and self-worth.She also uses rational-emotive ideas to challenge rigid or extreme beliefs that fuel distress. That approach helps people spot harsh self-talk and replace it with more balanced, realistic thinking. Together these methods provide practical tools and a supportive space to practice new ways of coping.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Then she adjusts techniques so they fit the client’s needs and pace rather than applying one fixed method.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video helps preserve face-to-face interaction, phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat works for shorter check-ins and ongoing support. These options let people fit sessions around work or caregiving and keep progress moving even when schedules are tight.
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- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English