About Angela
Angela McAlarney, LISW, helps people manage anxiety and related challenges. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away. She listens for what matters most and then works with each person to set clear goals.
Angela draws on three years of experience as a licensed independent social worker in Ohio. She has a background in social work and has supported people facing trauma, relationship strain, grief, and parenting stress.
Background and approach
She also addresses issues like abandonment, attachment concerns, impulsivity, and social anxiety. Her sessions tend to be straightforward and goal-oriented. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions, and helps people try new patterns that reduce distress.
Sessions include practical exercises, skill-building, and small experiments to test new ways of coping. People can expect a supportive tone and clear steps between meetings. Angela emphasizes each person’s strengths and collaborates on plans that fit real life.
She aims to make progress feel achievable rather than overwhelming. Her work covers a range of life changes and emotional struggles, including depression, stress, self-esteem, and caregiver strain. She also supports those dealing with post-traumatic stress and women’s issues.
Sessions use plain language and focus on what a person can do next.
Online therapy approaches and practical options
Angela uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT breaks problems into manageable steps, offers concrete skills, and helps people test new ways of coping with anxiety, depression, and stress.She focuses on applying skills to everyday life, such as thought records, behavioral experiments, and activity planning. These tools help people notice how thoughts affect feelings and choose small, doable actions that reduce distress over time.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to pick or adapt methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort. That collaborative process can include trying different techniques and adjusting pace and focus as needed.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules. Video helps preserve face-to-face interaction, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat lets people check in between sessions or have shorter touchpoints. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
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- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
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- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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