About Anita
Anita Thomas-Bua is a licensed psychotherapist with two decades of experience guiding people through stress, anxiety, trauma, mood disorders, grief, relationship and intimacy challenges, and a broad range of life transitions.
Background and approach
Holding LCPC and LPC credentials, she combines psychotherapy and life coaching to help clients address issues such as anger, eating and body image concerns, parenting and career stress, ADHD, bipolar symptoms, compassion fatigue, and chronic illness-related challenges. Her practice emphasizes a warm, interactive style grounded in respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
Anita draws on client-centered methods to create a collaborative space, and she integrates cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused perspectives, Imago relationship work, and Jungian ideas where appropriate. Her approach aims to educate and empower clients to restore balance in mind, body, and spirit while building practical skills for coping with change.
Clients who choose Anita can expect encouragement to face difficult experiences and support in taking steps toward a more fulfilling life. She welcomes those ready to engage in the therapeutic process and offers guidance intended to strengthen resilience, clarify values, and foster meaningful growth.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Client-centered therapy emphasizes an empathetic, nonjudgmental stance where the therapist listens closely and supports clients in finding their own solutions; this approach helps with building self-esteem, coping with life changes, and fostering personal insight. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical strategies, which is often helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) attends to emotional patterns in relationships and individual experience, supporting people who want to improve connection, heal attachment wounds, or process intense feelings.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist collaborates with clients to determine which methods best match their goals, needs, and preferences, and she adapts techniques over time as progress and priorities evolve.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to access care from different locations. These formats offer flexibility for follow-up check-ins, skill practice between sessions, and continuity of care when in-person visits are not possible, while allowing licensed professionals to tailor the process to each client's needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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