Anita Coffey

Anita Coffey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship strain, trauma, and depression. She works with individuals who feel stuck, isolated, or overwhelmed and focuses on practical steps that can make daily life more manageable. Anita writes and talks clearly so clients can follow the plan they build together.

She earned both her undergraduate and graduate degrees in social work and has 13 years of clinical experience. Much of that time was spent in addiction rehabilitation settings and outpatient clinics. She has also worked with school-aged children and families and served as a therapist for Drug Court before moving into private practice.

Her approach centers on the person in front of her. She uses client-centered and solution-focused work to set goals you can try between sessions. Motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral techniques are mixed in to change behaviors and thoughts that keep people stuck.

Anita is comfortable communicating by speech or in writing and aims to be flexible about how people prefer to connect. She pays attention to patterns that cause pain, such as codependency, communication problems, or repeated feelings of abandonment and loneliness, and helps people make small, clear changes.

People often come to her for help with addictions, family problems, mood disorders, and post-traumatic stress. She supports work on practical issues too, like money stress, life purpose, and improving day-to-day routines. If the approach sounds like a fit, she asks prospective clients to take the next step through the site's intake process.

How Anita’s approaches work online

Client-centered therapy puts the client's priorities first and focuses on listening and understanding. It helps when someone needs space to be heard and to shape their own goals based on what matters to them.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises and simple experiments to change patterns that maintain anxiety, low mood, or addictive behavior.

Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative way of talking that helps people find their own reasons to change. It is often useful when someone feels stuck or ambivalent about recovery or behavior change.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Anita will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, and together they decide which methods to try and how to blend them. That process is collaborative and revisited over time.

If you are interested in online therapy, please confirm the session formats available before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. Therapists and licensed professionals often adapt exercises and homework so they work well in remote sessions and fit into everyday life.