Anita Thomas-Bua, LCPC, LPC

Anita Thomas-Bua is a licensed counselor with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, grief, and trauma. She also supports clients facing depression, anger, intimacy-related issues, eating and body-image struggles, ADHD, and life changes. Anita brings a calm, respectful presence to sessions and aims to make the first steps toward change feel doable.

In sessions she uses a warm, interactive style that focuses on listening and practical work. She draws on several approaches to match the work to each person's needs, including client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral techniques. Sessions often include talking through current problems, identifying patterns, and trying small steps that can change daily routines.

Anita frames challenges as opportunities to build strength and clearer goals. She combines psychotherapy and coaching to help people restore balance in mind, body, and spirit. This can mean addressing career stress, caregiving strain, chronic illness, or the emotional fallout from separation and loss.

Her background includes work with adolescents, adults, and geriatric clients across a range of mental health concerns and mood disorders. Anita holds the LCPC credential and the LPC credential and practices in Illinois while accepting international clients for remote work.

People who meet her find a therapist who values respect, sensitivity, and compassion. She encourages clients to take small, courageous steps and supports them in building lasting coping skills and clearer direction.

How Anita’s Approaches Translate to Online Work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and creating a respectful space where the client’s goals guide the work. This approach helps with anxiety, self-esteem, caregiving stress, and navigating life changes by centering what matters most to the person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. CBT can be useful for depression, panic, anger, and coping with daily stressors. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people identify and work with strong emotions and connection patterns, which can be helpful for intimacy-related issues and relationship distress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan based on what helps. That makes the process collaborative and practical rather than one-size-fits-all.

The original biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm available online options before booking. Many people appreciate remote sessions because they can fit therapy into busy days, reduce travel time, and make steady progress from different locations. Remote work also makes it easier to continue care when dealing with caregiving duties, medical issues, or travel. Licensed professionals can adapt techniques like CBT worksheets, emotion-focused conversations, and client-centered check-ins to a remote setting to keep sessions goal-oriented and useful.