About Anila
Dr. Anila Malik is a licensed professional counselor working in Georgia with 36 years of experience. She holds a Ph.D. in Psychology and brings long experience in mental health and substance use work.
She speaks English, Punjabi, and Urdu, and she accepts international clients. In session she keeps things straightforward and human. She listens first, then helps people set clear goals.
Her style is respectful and compassionate, and she aims to tailor a practical plan to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Her background includes supervising interns and consulting for agencies, plus running a independent practice. She has worked with a wide range of concerns including mood and anxiety disorders, trauma and abuse, addictions, eating and sleep problems, and grief. She also addresses relationship and intimacy issues, parenting and blended family concerns, ADHD, bipolar mood issues, and compassion fatigue.
Dr. Malik commonly uses client-centered work, cognitive behavioral strategies, and dialectical behavior approaches to help people change unhelpful patterns. She also draws on emotionally focused ideas and mindfulness practices to improve emotional awareness and coping skills.
Therapy sessions can be delivered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Getting started involves completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits with the therapist’s availability.
Approaches that guide online support
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship so people can explore what matters most to them. It helps when someone needs acceptance, clearer self-understanding, or support making personal changes.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and address sleep or eating concerns by changing unhelpful thinking and behaviors.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and handling conflict more effectively. It can be useful for people coping with intense mood swings, anger, or relationship stress.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try a few methods, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. This collaborative process aims to match techniques to each person's needs and preferences.
Online sessions can be done by video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Video works well for in-depth work when seeing facial cues matters. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Messaging and live chat fit short check-ins, skill practice, or times when a brief contact fits a busy day. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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What this counselor 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