About Anthony
Anthony Vario is a licensed social worker who focuses on helping people find steadier footing during stressful life moments. He uses a warm, reflective style to create a calm space where people can talk through their worries and begin to make manageable changes. He draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centered approaches to help people notice what matters most to them.
Anthony also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools when patterns of thinking or emotion feel overwhelming.
Background and approach
These methods are explained plainly and used to build practical skills for everyday life. Common concerns he addresses include stress, anxiety, grief, career transitions, and struggles with intimacy or self-esteem. He also helps people dealing with compassion fatigue, ADHD, and issues connected to identity and sexuality, including work related to LGBT and kink communities.
Additional focus areas cover abandonment, caregiver stress, codependency, and isolation. Anthony has six years of clinical experience and holds the LCSW credential in Arizona and the LICSW credential in Massachusetts. He practices from Rhode Island and conducts sessions in English.
His approach aims to be collaborative and straightforward, helping people tap into their own values and strengths. In sessions, clients can expect a mix of listening, feedback, and concrete strategies. The work tends to center on small steps that fit into busy lives, with attention to both feelings and practical day-to-day coping.
Therapy approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It focuses on acting in meaningful ways even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s experience and uses empathic listening to help them feel heard and more able to make personal changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful cycles.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Anthony will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs and goals. That means mixing listening, values work, and skill-building in ways that feel useful and realistic for everyday life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is good for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or messaging works well for quick check-ins, skill practice, or fitting brief sessions into a busy day. These options let people access licensed professionals without changing their routine, and make it easier to keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Arizona
- Languages
- English