About Angela
Angela Richard is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with eight years of experience in behavioral health. She offers steady, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxiety. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at helping clients notice what is working and what needs to change.
She spent years working in inpatient behavioral health, crisis stabilization, and intensive outpatient care. That work gave her frequent experience with mood disorders, bipolar symptoms, and post-traumatic stress.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with addiction, anger, isolation, and relationship communication problems. In sessions she uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to teach skills and build coping habits. She focuses on short-term strategies that can reduce emotional overwhelm and longer-term steps that strengthen resilience.
The approach is collaborative - the client’s goals guide each step. Clients can expect straightforward skill-building for anxiety, depression, impulsivity, and struggles with self-esteem or life purpose. Angela also works through complex issues like codependency, guilt, forgiveness, and co-morbid diagnoses.
She helps people find clearer priorities and more stable routines. Her Texas background in higher-acuity settings means she is comfortable with crisis work as well as ongoing therapy. Sessions aim to leave people with tools they can use between appointments and a clearer sense of what progress looks like.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques such as cognitive behavioral methods and DBT-informed strategies focus on practical skills people can use right away. Cognitive behavioral methods help identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more balanced thinking, which is useful for anxiety and depression. DBT-informed strategies emphasize emotion regulation and distress tolerance, which can help with impulsivity, anger, and intense mood swings.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan if something is not helpful. That collaborative process helps match methods to a client’s needs and preferences over time.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation, while phone sessions are a good choice when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits the day. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice between sessions, or ongoing written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep steady progress even when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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