Experience

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  Real estate investment group

  Jan 1985 - Jan 2010

  Anastasia bean
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  Directions usa

  Jan 1988 - Jan 2011

  Commercial print / on-camera / corporate narrator / runway
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  Factor women model management

  Jan 1997 - Jan 2011

  Commercial print / on-camera / corporate narrator / runway
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  The anxiety & stress management institute

  Feb 2012 - May 2013

  Counselor intern
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  Warencke professional counseling

  May 2013 - Dec 2016

  Licensed professional counselor
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  Peachtree psychology

  Jan 2017 - Jul 2018

  Licensed professional counselor
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  Connections behavioral health and complex pain recovery

  Aug 2018 - now

  Founder & director

  Anastasia is a licensed professional counselor (LPC), a nationally board certified counselor (NCC), a Certified Complicated Pain Recovery™ Coach, and she holds a Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Georgia State University. She has developed an expertise in chronic pain through her collaborative work with pain management specialists. Inspired to better serve the chronic pain community she created a chronic pain and fibromyalgia support group where she incorporates evidence-based modalities for managing complex pain. She utilizes a Complex Pain Recovery ®language aimed at enhancing coping skills, increasing levels of functioning, with a focus on decreasing medication reliance. Ms. Bean serves on the CPA (Chronic Pain Anonymous) Board Of Trustees as a professional advocate.Anastasia's therapeutic approach is strength based and integrative, utilizing solution-focused, experiential, gestalt, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). She has intensely trained in emotionally focused therapy (EFT) and enjoys working with individuals, couples, and families. She believes the therapeutic relationship is vital and uses a humanistic approach based on trust and unconditional positive regard. Anastasia seeks to help clients gain insight into the past and evaluate present living. Exploration of awareness, coping skills, and motivation of present living are examined to create new patterns of thought, new emotional responses, and behaviors to not only heal and reach life goals but to thrive and live fully.Before seeking a career as a professional counselor, Anastasia worked in the Real Estate and Fashion Industries for 25 years. Her background includes 11 years of volunteer experience and the privilege of working with individuals and families affected by addiction. She became a professional counselor because she is passionate about helping others find new, more effective ways of coping and living life with serenity. Show less