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Anita Webster, LCSW - Therapist at Grow Therapy

Anita Webster

Anita Webster

LCSW
22 years of experience
Virtual

I am an Australian who moved to Texas a few years ago and have moved a few times in my life. Because if this, I know a lot about life transitions, change and managing stress and anxiety. I am an LCSW with over 20 years of experience in the field of trauma and women's health. I have previously specilaised in the perinatal period, helping women through pregnancy and into parenting. Over recent years I have focused on women's mental health from a wholistic mind-body approach and studied how to help women heal from truama.

What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?

In our first session together, we'll start with brief introductions, then dive into the specific challenges you're facing. This will help me create a tailored plan for us to work through in follow-up sessions.

Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.

Having worked with women for many years, I have gained significant skills and knowledge. My strengths are providing a safe place to explore and be vulnerable to look at the cause of your challenges and provide hope at the end of each session, knowing that you are worth the investment and you have the capacity to do what it takes to live a rich and fulfilling life.

About Anita Webster

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22765 Westheimer Parkway, Katy, TX, USA

Appointments

Virtual & in-person

My treatment methods

EMDR

When we experience a trauma, it causes us to develop beliefs about ourselves or the world and to start to behave in ways that are not helpful to our wellbeing. These harmful experiences become fixed in our body and mind in the form of irrational emotions, blocked energy and sometimes physical symptoms. While Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing might sound scary, it is a very gentle way that I can help you to process these trapped memories and start to feel free again.

Acceptance and commitment (ACT)

In using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) I can help you stop avoiding, denying and struggling with difficult emotions and behaviors. Instead we work on accepting that these feelings and responses are normal and need to be responded to instead of ignored. ACT is based on the idea that negative emotions come not just from our experiences, but from our reluctance to accept those experiences. Resisting or trying to avoid uncomfortable feelings can create more distress, whereas ACT teaches you to accept the stress, discomfort, and negative emotions, in order to work through them.

Christian Counseling

Everyone has a soul and a spiritual life, even those who don’t believe in a higher power or God. Spirituality is a dimension of human experience, and we all face existential questions at some point in our lives. It’s interesting to note that many of the questions that we ask ourselves about life and spiritual matters, are the same issues that often cause us to seek therapy. We don’t have to be religious, or faith-based, to question the meaning of grief and loss, trauma or an event in our lives where we felt out of control, unloved, unaccepted by others or abandoned, to name a few. Faith-based therapy can be a great option when you’re struggling with spiritual questions or issues that are affecting your mental health. They’re natural choices when you’re a spiritual or religious person, but they can be valid options even if you’re not religious.

Grief Therapy

Are you feeling profound sadness after the death of a loved one? Experiencing excessive guilt about something left unsaid or undone? Maybe you’re gripped with fear? Caught in a cycle of anxiety, helplessness, or panic? Or having trouble resuming a normal life with grief and pain as your constant companions? I can provide you a much-needed safe space to work through your struggles in a caring and non-judgemental way. Grief is exhausting and can be consuming amongst other emotions and I can help you work through the rollercoaster that you may feel you are on.

Mind-body approach

Somatic (Mind-body approach) is a great apprach for those who have tried talk therapy in the past and it hasn't worked, or who are curious and want to take a wholistic approach to their therapeutic journey. I have done extensive training in the modality and love to work with clients in this way. If you have struggled with the impact of childhood trauma, an acute trauma, anxiety or depression, this approach takes you into the body so that we use the power of your body to help you regulate your emotions and become calmer and feel safe in your own body.