About Angela
Angela Kalsbeek, LCSW, brings six years of clinical social work experience to her counseling practice in Wisconsin. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and parenting strains. Her style centers on compassion, connection, and simple, practical steps that people can use between sessions.
She takes an eclectic approach and adapts methods to each person’s needs. Angela uses art and play techniques when appropriate and leans on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and psychoeducation are part of her sessions so clients learn how their bodies and emotions interact. When working with children she uses play, sand tray, and art methods to make therapy feel safe and understandable. She aims for a strength-based tone that highlights what a child already does well while teaching new coping skills.
The work often includes helping children recognize bodily signals and practice ways to calm their nervous system. For adults and parents she focuses on clear skills - stress management, communication tools, and day-to-day strategies for mood and relationship concerns. Angela mixes hands-on exercises with talking so people leave each session with concrete next steps.
She also offers psychoeducation about how life events shape emotional responses. Outside of therapy she enjoys walking her dog Ruby, gardening, DIY seasonal projects, and going to concerts. These personal interests inform a warm, down-to-earth approach that aims to make therapy practical and relatable.
How Angela Uses Practical Approaches Online
Angela draws on evidence-based techniques to guide sessions in plain, usable ways. Cognitive behavioral strategies help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety and low mood. These techniques focus on small experiments and skills you can practice between sessions to change thinking patterns.She also incorporates mindfulness exercises to teach attention and breathing skills that calm the body. For children and clients who benefit from expressive methods she uses art and play-based techniques, including sand tray work, to express feelings when words are hard to find. Those methods can help with attachment, trauma processing, and emotional regulation.
Choosing the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to set goals and then tests methods to see what fits best. Adjustments are made as progress and preferences become clear so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and different communication needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises, while phone sessions can fit a short break or work around bandwidth limits. Live chat and text-based messaging provide quick check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or a way to work without being on camera. These options make it easier to maintain consistency and practice skills in daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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