Anastasia has a B.Sc. in Psychology with specialization in Neuroscience from Acadia University and a M.Sc. in Psychiatry Research from Dalhousie University. Her M.Sc. thesis focused on a brief, group-based, guided self-help treatment for binge-eating disorder. She worked as an emergency department medical scribe and a coordinator for the Rural Ontario Medical Program before joining the research team at the Nova Scotia Health Eating Disorder Program in 2021, where she is currently a research coordinator.