About Angel
Angel Damara is a licensed clinical social worker with 17 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and parenting strain. She practices in Oregon and speaks English. Her focus includes relationship and intimacy concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, sleep problems, and life changes such as divorce or caregiving stress.
Angel uses a straightforward, person-centered style. Sessions are conversational and practical. She pays attention to what matters most to each person and helps them build small, useful skills they can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Her background includes many years in addictions and mental health care and work at the VA addressing PTSD symptoms, insomnia and nightmares, bipolar disorder, chronic pain, and related concerns. That clinical experience informs her approach to complicated or co-occurring issues. In therapy she blends specific skill-based methods with deeper work on values and attachment patterns.
Cognitive behavioral strategies are used to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice what matters and act on it despite hard feelings. Angel also draws on attachment-based ideas to improve close relationships and on dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
She aims to build self-awareness, stronger communication, and better coping for everyday life. The overall goal is practical change and more meaning, one step at a time.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then take actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and practicing new skills to reduce symptoms like anxiety and insomnia. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape expectations and communication in close relationships and helps people build more stable connections.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That might mean using CBT skills for sleep and anxiety, ACT exercises for motivation and values, or attachment-focused conversations for relationship concerns.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and skills practice, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, brief check-ins fit live chat, and text messaging can help with daily support and reminders. These options make it easier to keep therapy going around work, caregiving, and other life demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Oregon, Washington
- Languages
- English
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