About Anita Astley
Her passion for helping others build healthy relationships—from the inside out—has led Astley to take her expertise beyond the confines of her private practice and launch her Ask Anita Astley mission via a new book, social media, podcasts, radio, and TV.
Anita Astley received her bachelor of arts from Concordia University, her master’s degree in education and counseling from McGill University, and post-graduate marriage and family therapy certification from the Argyle Institute of Human Relations (Montreal, Canada).
Astley comes from a diverse background having living in India, Germany, Canada, and now the United States. Consequently speaks three languages; Hindi, French and English.
Over the last twenty-five-plus years, Astley has founded private practices in Montreal (Quebec, Canada), New York and Wisconsin, helping individuals, couples, and families with various mental health and relational challenges ranging from basic communication issues to anxiety and depression to gender confusion to conflict resolution, life transitions, career difficulties, divorce & separation, co-parenting, to name a few. In addition to clinical work, she has served as an adjunct professor and consultant for numerous mental health agencies through her vast career. Ms. Astley has also held leadership positions in local professional chapters (8 year term as board president of the Albany, Hudson Valley Chapter in upstate New York) of The American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Today, she holds the notable title of clinical fellow with the AAMFT due to years of professional membership and service.
When she is not treating patients in Milwaukee, WI she is on her book tour, speaking engagements, and in the recording studio, and/or in front of the camera sharing her mission, passion and message of "building healthy relationships from the inside out" with the world.