About Anita
Anita Stadler is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on helping people facing anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, parenting stress, and substance concerns. She offers a calm and respectful approach that aims to reduce shame and make change feel possible. Sessions emphasize clear, practical steps alongside listening and emotional support.
Her work draws on somatic ideas that connect body sensations with feelings and thoughts. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-based techniques to help people notice patterns and try new ways of relating.
Background and approach
Many sessions include practical tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and client-centered conversation to build skills and self-awareness. With 15 years of experience, Anita has supported people through grief, trauma, caregiving strain, chronic health issues, and career transitions. She has worked with concerns ranging from anger and intimacy issues to codependency and communication problems.
Her experience includes addressing complex combinations of issues rather than single problems in isolation. Anita aims for an interactive, team-based process. She listens closely, helps name what matters, and collaborates on steps that fit each person’s life.
The focus is on realistic, manageable change rather than labels or one-size-fits-all plans. Sessions are offered from Wyoming in English and use flexible online formats. People start by completing a short questionnaire to match with her and then schedule sessions that suit their needs.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Somatic-informed work pays attention to bodily signals as part of healing. It helps people notice tension, breath, or sensation and learn gentle ways to shift those patterns, which can ease anxiety, chronic pain, or trauma-related stress.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed steps toward them. It teaches simple practices to notice difficult thoughts and move forward with actions that matter, often helpful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections. It can help people understand why they react a certain way in relationships and practice new, healthier ways of relating.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they try strategies, track what helps, and adjust the plan as needed.
Online sessions make this work more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided somatic exercises. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when video is not possible. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions and get brief support when needed. These formats aim to fit therapy into busy lives while keeping the focus on real progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Wyoming, Oklahoma, Texas
- Languages
- English