About Anita
Anita Adams is a licensed professional counselor who uses practical, evidence-based methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and trauma. She offers a direct and compassionate style aimed at clear steps forward. Anita works from Colorado and brings 11 years of experience to her practice.
She focuses on helping people handle life changes and intense emotions. Common areas she supports include grief, low self-esteem, anger, relationship concerns, and depression.
Background and approach
Anita also addresses more specific struggles like abandonment, impulsivity, and process addictions such as gambling or compulsive behaviors. Her work blends cognitive and emotion-focused approaches to change unhelpful thinking and improve emotional connection. She uses techniques that teach skills for coping, reduce distress, and address trauma symptoms through targeted interventions.
Sessions emphasize practical tools that people can use between appointments. Anita also brings experience with substance and alcohol difficulties, codependency, and first responder issues. She helps people sort out co-occurring problems and build clearer goals for recovery and wellbeing.
Her style stays focused yet warm during difficult conversations. To begin, she asks about current struggles and what the person hopes to change. From there she and the client map out short-term goals and skills to practice.
This approach keeps sessions grounded and action oriented, while making room to process painful experiences.
How evidence-based methods translate to online care
CBT helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and many everyday stressors by teaching step-by-step strategies to manage symptoms and practice new habits.EMDR focuses on processing troubling memories that keep causing distress. In sessions it uses guided attention and memory work to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and decrease avoidance and flashbacks.
Motivational Interviewing is a short-term approach that helps people find their own reasons to change. It is often used alongside other methods to support recovery from substance use or to increase commitment to goals.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will discuss options and work collaboratively to match methods to the person’s needs, goals, and comfort. Plans can be adjusted over time as progress and preferences become clearer.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when someone prefers not to use video. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue care across different circumstances.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Jealousy
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Arizona, Texas
- Languages
- English