Anthony Borchardt offers individuals a supportive place to navigate one of life’s most meaningful and demanding transitions. Anthony views therapy as a collaborative process between client and therapist, with the shared mission of helping clients move toward their own unique goals. He works to provide a supportive, empathic setting where clients can feel understood, empowered, and better equipped to become the healthiest version of themselves.

Anthony understands both professionally and personally how becoming a parent can affect emotional, mental, relational, and physical well-being. Since becoming a parent himself, he has developed a deep appreciation for the changes that come with parenthood and has found meaningful purpose in supporting clients as they adjust to the role of parent. His work also includes support for neurodivergent clients, as well as individuals facing stress, anxiety, men’s issues related to identity and masculinity, addiction and gambling recovery, depression, trauma, workplace issues, and relationship concerns.

Who I Work With

• Individuals seeking counseling for stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction recovery, or gambling recovery
• Men working through identity, masculinity, emotional expression, low self-esteem, anger, or self-critical thought patterns
• New and expecting parents navigating emotional, mental, relational, and practical transitions
• Clients coping with family stress, relationship issues, workplace challenges, crisis experiences, or difficult life circumstances
• Adults of all ages

My Approach to Therapy

Anthony utilizes Person-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Solution-Focused Therapy, mindfulness techniques, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and trauma-informed CBT. His approach is practical, collaborative, and responsive to each client’s goals. He helps clients bring awareness to the present moment, notice thoughts and emotions, and better recognize patterns that may contribute to anxiety, depression, stress, substance use, or relational challenges.

His trauma-informed work began in residential care, where he supported young boys and adolescents coping with physical and emotional abuse, substance abuse, and gang violence. Through this work, Anthony became skilled at helping individuals identify, understand, and manage unsettling emotions such as anxiety, anger, and low self-esteem. He later expanded his clinical skill set in inpatient substance use and mental health treatment, private practice, onsite crisis intervention, outpatient care, residential services, and employee assistance program environments.

Anthony’s solution-focused experience is especially helpful for clients who feel stuck. By focusing on the future, current coping skills, and realistic movement forward, he helps clients identify solutions that are already within reach. He has found this approach helpful for life stressors such as family and relationship issues, gambling recovery, workplace concerns, and crisis intervention following death, injury, or other difficult circumstances. His training in emotionally focused therapy and perinatal mental health also supports his work with parents.

What Clients Can Expect

Clients can expect Anthony to be supportive, empathic, and goal-oriented. He creates space for clients to speak openly while also helping them identify practical steps toward growth. Instead of sitting back in silent nods, Anthony brings his full presence into the room as an active partner. He believes that healing requires real connection. This means your sessions will include deep, meaningful work, but also room to laugh, joke, and find humor in the chaos of everyday life.

For some clients, therapy may focus on understanding difficult emotions. For others, it may involve building coping skills, strengthening relationships, improving communication, or learning to manage thoughts in a less judgmental way.

Anthony works collaboratively and respects that each client brings a different history, set of strengths, and reason for seeking counseling. Whether someone is entering therapy for new parent counseling, anxiety, trauma, men’s issues, addiction recovery, or relationship stress, he aims to create a shared space where you can be entirely yourself. You are welcome to vent, process, or share a laugh as you work to move forward together.

Areas of Focus

• New and expecting parent counseling
• Perinatal mental health
• Men’s issues, identity, and masculinity
• Stress and anxiety management
• Neurodivergent-affirming therapy
• Depression counseling
• Trauma and trauma-informed CBT
• Addiction and gambling recovery
• Mindfulness-based coping skills
• Workplace issues and EAP-related stress
• Relationship and family concerns

Background and Personal Details

Anthony has over a decade of combined academic, professional, and clinical training. His clinical experience includes serving adolescents through older adults in private practice, inpatient and outpatient care, onsite crisis intervention, residential services, and employee assistance program settings. This broad background informs his ability to support clients facing a wide array of challenges, including parenting and relationship issues, anxiety management, men’s issues, addictions and gambling recovery, trauma, depression, health and wellness concerns, and workplace issues.

Anthony received his Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Loyola University Chicago, with minors in Sociology and Criminal Justice, in 2008. He received his Master’s in Social Work from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2014, his clinical social work license (LCSW) in 2017, and his perinatal mental health certificate (PMH-C) in 2021.

Closing Invitation

To explore new parent counseling or another area of support with Anthony, reach out through Ace Counseling Group or schedule a session when you are ready.