About Angela
Angela Dawn Foretich is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 17 years of experience. She offers a calm, direct approach for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, grief, and trauma. She meets clients where they are and helps them find workable steps forward.
Reaching out is framed as a first step toward feeling more able to cope. Her sessions focus on practical skills and steady support.
Background and approach
She uses approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different responses. Attachment-based and client-centered ideas guide how she builds trust and listens for what matters to each person. Angela has worked with people managing life-threatening illness, caregiver strain, and grief.
She also supports those dealing with anger, self-esteem struggles, compassion fatigue, and complex family issues. Many clients come when a big life change leaves them unsure what to do next. In sessions she helps clients identify strengths and build new coping skills.
She offers feedback, practice exercises, and space to talk through hard feelings. The aim is to help people move toward goals that feel meaningful to them. Her style is respectful and compassionate, with an emphasis on clear, usable tools.
She encourages collaboration so therapy fits the person’s needs and daily life.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes where someone wants clearer direction rather than quick fixes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and practicing new skills to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression. It often uses short exercises and homework that suit remote sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy emphasizes relationships and how early bonds influence current feelings and reactions, which can help when relationship patterns or family history are part of the problem.Choosing an approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they may try one method or blend several to match the person’s needs and change over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and exercises that need visual cues. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging let people get support between sessions, send quick updates, or use therapy in smaller bursts. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives and to keep working on skills between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- 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
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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