About Anthony
Anthony Mastroianni is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of post-masters experience based in Pennsylvania. He offers straightforward, direct care for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, relationship conflict, or major life changes. Anthony speaks English and works with individuals from different backgrounds, including military and first responder communities.
He began his career at a university-affiliated psychiatric research institute, focusing on substance dependence and mood disorders.
Background and approach
That early work led him to family therapy and interventions for highly conflicted relationships, including those involving aggression and intimate partner violence. He has worked in rural, urban, and island settings and values how culture shapes a person’s experience. Anthony uses a mix of approaches in session.
He leans on client-centered conversations to help people set goals and make choices. He also draws from cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and from dialectical methods to teach emotional and interpersonal skills. Sessions often combine individual and group work, and he includes mindfulness and relaxation practices when useful.
He has guided people through post-acute recovery from substance dependence, trauma and post-traumatic stress, bipolar and mood disorders, parenting and fatherhood issues, and struggles with codependency and family disruption. His style is collaborative and non-judgmental. He helps people identify practical steps, build skills, and take responsibility for choices that move them toward their goals.
The work focuses on clear, usable tools that fit the person’s life.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Anthony often uses client-centered work to start, which means conversations focus on the person’s goals and choices. This approach helps people clarify what matters to them and guides practical next steps. He also incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy, a hands-on method that looks at thought patterns and behaviors and teaches tools to change them.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist and client discuss goals, try methods, and adjust as needed. Treatment can blend approaches so techniques match the problem - for example mixing CBT skills with mindful awareness for stress or DBT-style skills for emotion regulation.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is useful when visual connection helps the work. Phone sessions can fit short check-ins or lower bandwidth needs. Text and chat let people check in between sessions or use therapy in moments that suit a busy day. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and build skills over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English