Anastasia Maravelias-Kakos

Anastasia Maravelias-Kakos is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey with 22 years of experience. She has worked in private practice, schools, and community settings. Anastasia helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. Her style is warm, client-centered, and interactive. Sessions focus on practical conversation and real steps you can try between meetings. She aims to tailor the pace and plan to each person's needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all approach. Anastasia uses a mix of cognitive-behavioral ideas, rational-emotive strategies, and humanistic principles. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, challenge rigid beliefs, and build greater self-awareness and self-compassion. These methods are often used to address low self-esteem, panic symptoms, social anxiety, and difficulties with motivation. She also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, communication problems, and the emotional fallout from divorce or separation. Isolation and loneliness are listed areas of focus and are addressed with practical skills and connection-building strategies. Anastasia works to create a respectful, sensitive space for those conversations. Seeking change can feel hard, and she frames therapy as a collaborative process. She aims to empower clients, help them try new coping tools, and adjust the plan as progress and needs evolve.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Her work draws on cognitive-behavioral techniques that help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns to reduce anxiety and low mood. These interventions focus on practical exercises and skill-building that can be practiced between sessions.

She also uses rational-emotive ideas to identify rigid or extreme beliefs and gently challenge them so clients can adopt more flexible, useful ways of thinking. Alongside these methods, humanistic principles emphasize respect, empathy, and the client's own goals in shaping the work.

Choosing the right approach is part of the process. She will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and adapt methods collaboratively. The aim is to find techniques that fit the client's life and feel meaningful to them.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm session formats before booking since formats are not specified in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Therapists and licensed professionals often adjust session length, focus, and homework to suit the online setting and each person's daily routine.