Anita Tanner , LMSW

Anita Tanner is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) with forty years of clinical experience supporting middle-aged and older adults through significant life challenges. She focuses on grief and loss, anxiety and depression, relationship struggles, and transitions that come with changing roles and stages of life. With a patient, steady approach, she helps clients explore their feelings, build practical coping skills, and identify values that guide meaningful change.

Her practice centers on collaboration and respect for each person s pace and priorities. Anita draws on evidence-informed methods tailored to individual needs, helping people manage stress, strengthen self-esteem, and address trauma, caregiver strain, or intimacy and family concerns. She also offers support for issues such as compassion fatigue, chronic illness adjustments, and end-of-life related concerns.

Anita aims to help clients move their lives in a positive direction and achieve greater emotional wellbeing. As an LMSW - a Licensed Master Social Worker - she combines long experience with a compassionate, client-centered stance to assist those navigating complex emotions and life transitions.

Therapeutic Approaches Adapted for Online Care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then commit to actions that reflect their values. It is useful for chronic stress, anxiety, depression, and for people facing major life transitions who want to live in line with what matters most.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and adjusting unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. It offers practical tools for managing symptoms of anxiety, depression, mood disorders, and relationship-related difficulties through structured techniques and skill building.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches present-moment awareness and gentle acceptance of experience, which can reduce reactivity to stress, improve emotion regulation, and support coping with grief, chronic illness, or caregiver strain.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Anita collaborates with clients to determine which methods fit their goals, preferences, and life circumstances, and she adjusts strategies as therapy progresses to best support each person s needs.

Online therapy with Anita includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexible ways to connect that can fit work schedules, caregiving responsibilities, or mobility limitations. These options make consistent support more accessible while allowing the therapist and client to choose formats that feel most effective for their work together.