Anita Tanner , LMSW

Anita Tanner is a Licensed Master Social Worker with four decades of experience helping people navigate significant life challenges. She specializes in supporting middle-aged and older adults through grief and loss, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and major life transitions. With an LMSW - Licensed Master Social Worker - she combines deep clinical experience with a practical, compassionate approach to care.

Anita practices in Michigan and provides services in English. She is currently accepting new clients, including international clients, and draws on a broad set of therapeutic tools to meet each person where they are. Her work often centers on restoring emotional balance and helping clients move their lives in a more positive direction.

Her clinical focus includes stress, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, intimacy-related concerns, trauma and abuse, anger, bipolar disorder, and mood disorders. She also addresses related challenges such as abandonment, caregiver stress, chronic illness and disability, hospice and end-of-life counseling, isolation and loneliness, and questions of life purpose and midlife transition.

Anita integrates evidence-informed approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused Therapy. She offers therapy through a variety of formats to fit clients' needs, and aims to create practical strategies that support long-term emotional wellbeing.

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