About Anila
Dr. Anila Malik is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 36 years in mental health. She works from a clinical practice in Georgia and supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD and related concerns.
She speaks English, Punjabi, and Urdu and accepts international clients for online formats. Her work focuses on short- and long-term difficulties. She helps people who are coping with trauma, addiction, bipolar disorder, grief, and relationship or intimacy problems.
Background and approach
She also supports those dealing with sleep or eating struggles, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue. In sessions she uses client-centered methods to listen and understand each person's priorities. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and on dialectical skills to build emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
Mindfulness techniques are used to ground people in the moment. Dr. Malik designs treatment plans aimed at practical change.
That can include steps to improve mood, manage anxiety, reduce impulsive behaviors, or rebuild communication skills. She has experience with assessments, individual therapy, group work, and supervising trainees. Her background includes work in mental health and substance use settings and practice with a wide range of diagnoses.
People who prefer a direct, compassionate therapist who combines problem-solving with empathic listening may find her approach a good fit.
Therapeutic methods and online care
Dr. Malik commonly uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience so they feel heard and respected; it helps with motivation and relationship concerns. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful habits.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and try different techniques until they agree on a plan that fits. Decisions about pacing, skills practice, and focus are made together so the work matches what the person needs right now.
Online therapy with her is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for full sessions that benefit from face-to-face conversation, while phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging are handy for short check-ins, homework review, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue care across distances.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English, Punjabi, Urdu
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