Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist

Anita Baruah, LMFT CMHS RPT™ is a provider at our Federal Way clinic who provides therapy  services in-person for children and via telehealth or in person for adult women. She has been doing work as a marriage and family therapist since her internship in 2015, graduated with a Masters in Marriage & Family Therapy from Antioch University Seattle, and obtained a Post-Graduate Certificate in Play Therapy, also from Antioch University Seattle. She has earned her coveted Registered Play Therapist™ credential.

Her work with clients is based in systemic family, psychodynamic, attachment, and humanistic theories, meaning she collaborates with clients and their family systems to guide the client through barriers to self-actualization; she helps you identify patterns that no longer serve you and find your core goodness and inherent value as a person, which leads to enhanced functioning in your life.

Anita is well-versed in various modalities of play therapy. Contrary to popular belief, Play Therapy can be used with all ages of clients. Child Centered Play Therapy is the main version used with elementary and some middle school children. Sandtray Therapy and Filial Therapy can help adults and parents work through their emotional and functional challenges. In addition to Play Therapy, Anita is trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Object Relations Therapy, Child Parent Relationship Therapy, Parent Child Interaction Therapy, the Circle of Security® Parenting Program, Emotionally Focused Family Therapy, and other forms of Individual and Family Therapies.

Anita is also an American Association of Marriage & Family Therapy Approved Supervisor Candidate and can supervise MHC and MFT interns and associates, as well as fully licensed clinicians. Anita uses both the Developmental and Reflective Supervision models with her supervisees.

Anita is currently accepting clients aged 2-7 years old.