Anita Thomas-Bua, LCPC, LPC

Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life

Client-centered therapy puts the person at the center of sessions and focuses on listening, empathy, and building the client's own solutions. It helps when someone needs steady support, validation, and a place to sort through feelings and choices.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and uses practical exercises to shift unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and behavior changes that affect daily life.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on emotions and attachment patterns to help improve closeness and repair painful interactions. It can be helpful when relationship patterns or attachment wounds affect how someone connects with others.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals and try methods that match needs and preferences. That process is flexible and can change as progress is made.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video helps when visual connection matters, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging lets someone communicate in writing over time. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep continuity across life changes.