Anna Stock-Matthews, MHC-I, holds a masters in Mental Health Counseling from Fordham University. She entered the mental health field after a career in communications, working across nonprofit, corporate, and creative settings. In this role, Anna helped people tell their stories, identify their unique strengths and interests, and navigate workplace challenges including stress, perfectionism, burnout, and relationship-building. She has additional experience as a volunteer in crisis counseling and suicide-prevention with Crisis Text Line.? Anna works with adults across the lifespan around issues ranging from anxiety, depression and self-esteem, to career transitions, relationship challenges and feelings of uncertainty. She utilizes an integrative approach that is tailored to the unique needs of each client, drawing from modalities including cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, humanistic, and mindfulness-based techniques. Ms. Stock-Matthews’ style is grounded in warmth, curiosity, acceptance, and collaboration. She creates a safe, nonjudgmental space where clients can freely explore all sides of themselves and feel accepted exactly as they are. Working together, Anna helps clients to gain a deeper self-understanding, identify patterns that may be keeping them stuck, and harness their inner strengths and resilience. Through this process of self-exploration, clients can gain a greater sense of self-acceptance, feel empowered to face life’s challenges and live more meaningful, authentic, and connected lives.