SolaceSteps offers warmth, structure, and expressive support for professionals, expectant parents, new families, and children navigating change with confidence and care.
Support shaped by compassion, creativity, and clinical depth
Every engagement is designed to feel grounded, personal, and realistic — whether you’re seeking help for yourself, your family, or your workplace.
Who we support
Expecting parents, new parents, professionals returning to work, children ages 0–5, and families adapting to change.
How we work
Using creative arts, mindfulness, attachment-based work, and evidence-informed psychotherapy, we build practical tools that feel meaningful.
What makes this work different
We blend calm structure with emotional depth so support feels both restorative and actionable.
Services are available in New York and virtually
Services are available making support easier to access through different seasons of life.
Meet Anita Powell
Anita is a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, Mental Health Counselor (LP), and Certified Perinatal Mental Health Professional who brings warmth, clinical skill, and a grounded presence into every session. Her work is rooted in helping individuals and families build resilience, calm, and clarity.
Clinical Credentials
NYS Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (LCAT)
— License # 002533
Certified Perinatal Mental Health Professional (PMH-C)
— Cert # PSI2599127
Mental Health Counselor (LP)
Professional Memberships
Postpartum Support International (PSI)
Post Graduate Training
Practical Resources for Effective Postpartum Parenting (Certified Coach)
Interpersonal Psychotherapy Level A (IPT Institute)
Child Parent Psychotherapy Training (Rostered Therapist)
Circle of Security International Facilitator
Diagnostic Classification 0-5 Training
Restorative Yoga Level 1 training with Dr. Abby Paloma x SKY TING YOGA
Karma Kids Infant Developmental Movement And Yoga Certification
Karma Kids Children's Yoga Certification
My Approach
Support that balances tenderness with clarity
My approach is warm, grounding, creative, person-centered, solution-focused, goal-driven and rooted in attachment. I conduct both holistic & traditional approaches in session while allowing space for creativity, dyadic art making, movement based interventions based on a person's unique experience. In my work, I find ways to incorporate exploration, lightness and play into what can sometimes be an uncomfortable healing process for adults. I invite body scans & creative check-ins with either the use of a guided meditation, stretches, identifying physical sensations, or using a figure & drawing materials to identify where feelings are being held in the body
We have to look within in order to understand why we move, think, and feel the way we do. Healing is a full body experience that requires us to be curious, and open in order to both identify and understand our somatic responses to experiences
How we guide
We meet you where you are
Whether you are overwhelmed, hopeful, or simply unsure, we begin with what feels most true right now.
We build tools that last
Our work focuses on sustainable coping, emotional language, and more ease in daily life.
We honor the whole story
Parenthood, career change, grief, identity, body changes, and family systems all belong in the conversation.