- Client-centered approach
- English and Spanish
- 24 years experience
About Anita
Anita Silber Jrade is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with a client-centered approach. She focuses on helping people feel heard and understood while they work through relationship struggles, low self-esteem, depression, and stress. Her style is warm and practical, aimed at everyday changes that make life easier to manage.
With 24 years of experience, Anita blends Client-Centered Therapy with tools from cognitive behavioral and solution-focused approaches. She helps people identify unhelpful thoughts, try small experiments in daily life, and set clear goals. Sessions often include straightforward skills for communication, mood management, and problem solving.
Anita supports clients through major life changes like divorce, workplace shifts, and parenting challenges. She also works with concerns such as grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, ADHD, and bipolar mood concerns. Her practice pays attention to how identity, sexuality, and social roles shape emotional health.
She offers counseling in both English and Spanish, which can help people who prefer to talk in either language. Anita aims to create a respectful space where people can reflect, rehearse new ways of relating, and build self-compassion.
Her background includes long experience with family problems, communication breakdowns, body image, forgiveness, and life purpose work. Clients can expect a collaborative process focused on small, useful changes and clearer direction.
How Anita’s approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and responding to what matters most to each person. This approach focuses on empathy, acceptance, and helping clients set their own goals, which can be useful for relationship work, self-esteem, and identity questions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It uses practical exercises and small behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns.
Solution-Focused Therapy aims for clear, short-term goals and small steps that lead to change. It is helpful when someone wants focused problem solving for issues like communication, workplace problems, or parenting challenges.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, and then try methods that fit those needs. Adjustments happen along the way so the work stays relevant and useful.
Confirm current session options before booking so you know what formats are offered. Online therapy can make scheduling easier and help sessions fit into a busy week. It can also allow for shorter check-ins, reduce commute time, and remove the need to be on camera when bandwidth is limited. Licensed professionals can use these methods effectively in virtual sessions when the format matches the person’s goals and daily routine.
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Experience
24+ years
Listed in
Florida
Languages
English, Spanish
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does Anita address?
She works with relationship issues, depression, anxiety, stress, ADHD, grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, parenting and career difficulties.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her work is client-centered, focusing on listening and building on each person’s strengths while using practical strategies from CBT and solution-focused therapy.
How much experience does she have?
She has 24 years of professional experience helping people navigate life changes and emotional challenges.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Florida LMHC, practicing in Florida.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
Can international clients work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are involved to begin therapy?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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