Anita Wiles , LCSW

Anita Wiles is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 30 years of experience practicing in Virginia. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, cope with addictions, and address relationship or intimacy-related concerns. Anita speaks plainly and treats people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion as she helps them take steps toward change.

Her approach is collaborative and individualized. She works with each person to shape conversations and a plan that fit their situation. Sessions aim to identify practical steps people can use between meetings as well as topics to work on in session.

Anita has supported people through life transitions such as divorce and midlife change. She also helps with issues like panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, social anxiety, isolation, and feelings of guilt or shame. Caregiver stress, struggles with control, and questions about life purpose are also among the problems she addresses.

Conversations often include developing new ways to communicate, setting boundaries, and rebuilding self-trust and self-love. For those facing impulsivity or addictive behaviors, she focuses on manageable strategies to reduce harm and regain a sense of agency. Anita aims to empower people to make choices that match their values.

Her style is straightforward and warm. People who want a compassionate guide to practical change may find her helpful as they work through difficult emotions and everyday challenges.

Evidence-based techniques and flexible online care

Anita uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on clear, practical change. One common approach she uses helps people understand and reduce anxiety and panic by teaching breathing, grounding, and gradual exposure to feared situations. This approach is useful for panic attacks, social anxiety, and phobias.

She also works with methods that target addictive or impulsive behaviors by identifying triggers, building alternative coping skills, and creating step-by-step plans to reduce harm. That work often pairs skill practice with regular check-ins to track progress and adjust goals.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Anita will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and then adapt techniques to fit what feels most helpful. Together they decide what to try and how to measure progress over time.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging works for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and daily life.