About Angela
Angela Fleischer is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Oregon with ten years of professional experience. She helps people who are coping with stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting challenges, career questions, and life changes. Angela uses straightforward conversations and practical steps in sessions.
She focuses on creating a calm space where people can talk about difficult feelings without judgment. Her approach emphasizes listening first, then building small, workable strategies clients can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Her background includes leadership roles in higher education and work on public policy related to sexual assault and victim support. She has trained others in trauma-informed practices and has served on boards focused on domestic and sexual violence response. Angela has long experience supporting people affected by sexual violence, intimate partner violence, stalking, and childhood sexual abuse.
She has also worked with individuals in high-stress jobs, including first responders and medical workers, around post-traumatic stress symptoms and coping skills. In sessions she blends supportive talk with concrete tools to manage panic, reduce anxiety, and improve communication. She also assists with career decisions, caregiver stress, and handling isolation or midlife transitions.
Her goal is to help clients feel steadier and more in control of day-to-day life.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Angela draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on managing symptoms and building coping skills. One common approach she uses emphasizes skills for anxiety and panic management - teaching breathing, grounding, and stepwise exposure to decrease panic and worry. Another approach centers on trauma-informed practices, which help people process past harm at a steady pace and learn ways to reduce reactivity and build safety in daily routines.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Angela works with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences, and current needs. She listens to what is most pressing, suggests options, and adjusts the plan as progress is made so therapy stays practical and useful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well if bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for ongoing support between sessions or shorter check-ins that fit around work and family tasks. These options make it easier to keep regular contact and use strategies in real life when they are needed.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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