About Angela
Angela Kieler, LPC, focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress. She listens with an open mind and aims to make sessions useful and down-to-earth. Her style is warm and straightforward so clients can talk about hard things without jargon.
Kieler brings 18 years of experience across many settings. She has worked with children in special education and with older adults in hospice care. She also provided art therapy and individual counseling to people facing addiction and persistent mental illness.
Background and approach
She has experience assisting family members through education programs with the National Alliance on Mental Illness. At Truman Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri, she worked as a Qualified Mental Health Professional on complex community cases. Those roles shaped how she helps people navigate services and hard decisions.
Her approach is flexible and grounded in humanistic values. She offers Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, existential and client-centered perspectives, and cognitive behavioral techniques. She also uses art-based methods when fitting for a person’s needs.
Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings. Conversations often cover coping skills, relationship concerns, grief, mood challenges, parenting stress, work and career pressures, and questions about identity. The goal is to help each person choose actions that match their values and goals.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy breaks down troubling thoughts and behaviors into manageable parts and teaches practical skills to change patterns that feed anxiety or depression. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a warm, nonjudgmental conversation where the person sets the pace and the therapist follows their lead.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. From there she will suggest one or a blend of approaches and adjust as needed so sessions stay relevant and helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit quick updates, brief coaching, or people who prefer written conversation. These options help fit therapy around work, family, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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