About Angela
Angela Hastings is a licensed social worker in Michigan with 12 years of clinical experience. She focuses on anxiety, stress, depression, and life transitions, and she often works with people dealing with grief, body image, and eating-related challenges. Angela brings a warm, interactive presence to sessions and aims to help people feel heard and supported.
She approaches counseling from a client-centered view, which means clients help set the goals and pace.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be collaborative and practical, with room for faith and personal values when important to the person. Angela describes her role as a mentor and coach who walks alongside clients rather than directing them. Her overall style blends methods from cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, solution-focused therapy, and mindfulness.
That mix lets her tailor techniques to reduce anxiety, manage panic, address impulsivity, and cope with strong emotions. She also supports people working through self-harm urges, compulsive behaviors such as trichotillomania, and struggles with self-worth. Angela has experience with crisis intervention and helping people through sudden life changes.
She uses short-term tools and longer-term skill building depending on what each person needs. Expect straightforward, accessible language and step-by-step strategies you can try between sessions. Reaching out takes courage, and Angela encourages people to move at their own pace.
She works by focusing on practical steps, thoughtful listening, and building coping skills to manage day-to-day challenges.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. It invites clients to set goals and move at their own pace, which works well through conversation whether on video or by phone. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT tools can be practiced between sessions and reviewed over video or text to track progress. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills, helping with panic, impulsivity, and intense emotions; those skills are often taught in short, focused lessons that fit well into online sessions.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques together, and adjust based on what helps most. That collaborative testing helps identify whether CBT, DBT, or a client-centered approach best fits the person's needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face discussion, phone sessions when video isn't needed, and live chat or text messaging for brief check-ins and skill practice. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a workday, keep momentum between visits, or use lower-bandwidth formats when needed. Licensed professionals can adapt tools and homework to each format so progress continues no matter which method is chosen.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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