Anastasia Arceneaux , LPC

Anastasia Arceneaux is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Louisiana with 17 years of experience in the counseling field. She holds a Master’s degree in Psychological Counseling and a Specialist degree in School Psychology, and she has earned multiple certifications within behavioral health. Her clinical background includes work with children, adolescents, and adults across a range of mental health settings, giving her broad experience supporting people at different life stages.

Trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Anastasia blends trauma-informed methods with client-centered care, cognitive-behavioral techniques, mindfulness strategies, and motivational interviewing. She has helped clients address stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self-injurious behaviors, parenting and family challenges, depression, ADHD, addictions, relationship concerns, grief, and a variety of intimacy and self-esteem issues. Additional focuses include adoption and foster care concerns, attachment and abandonment issues, caregiver stress, codependency, and domestic violence among other areas.

Anastasia takes a nonjudgmental approach that emphasizes the client as the expert of their own story and the strengths they bring to change. She prioritizes building a trusting therapeutic relationship in which people feel heard and supported, and she aims to empower clients as they work toward more fulfilling and resilient lives.

Approaches for Online Care and Therapeutic Growth

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating an empathic, nonjudgmental space where the person leading the change is the client. In practice this means the therapist listens closely, reflects understanding, and helps clients identify their own strengths and goals, which can support work on self-esteem, relationships, and life transitions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice and adjust unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that contribute to problems like anxiety, depression, and stress. CBT offers practical, structured tools that clients can use between sessions to build coping skills and shift patterns that interfere with daily functioning.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused approach that helps process distressing memories and reduce their emotional impact. It is commonly used for trauma and abuse-related symptoms and can be integrated with other therapeutic work to support healing.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and is treated as a collaborative effort. Anastasia works with clients to identify what methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress unfolds.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, making it easier to fit care into busy schedules and reach therapists from different locations. These formats allow licensed professionals to deliver focused therapeutic work, maintain continuity of care, and support clients in practical, accessible ways.