About Angela
Angela Richardson Goodwin brings 15 years of counselling experience to her practice in Australia. She uses practical, evidence-based techniques to help people manage stress, anxiety and relationship or intimacy-related difficulties. Angela holds PACFA credentials and draws on a lifetime of varied experience to shape her work.
Her style is direct and down-to-earth. Sessions focus on finding small, useful changes that make day-to-day life easier. She uses worksheets, simple assessments and guided exercises to help clients see patterns and try new ways of relating and coping.
Background and approach
Angela blends talking therapy with mindfulness and elements of Gestalt thinking. She encourages clients to notice how thoughts, feelings and body sensations connect. This often helps with problems like low self-esteem, guilt and shame, or feeling isolated.
She also supports people facing parenting strain, chronic illness or caregiver stress. Practical tools for communication, impulse control and dealing with abandonment or attachment wounds are commonly part of sessions. Clients learn skills to manage difficult emotions and rebuild a sense of purpose.
Outside therapy Angela has a diverse background in nursing, maritime navigation and IT analysis. Those life experiences inform a pragmatic approach to therapy and a focus on resilience. She aims to help people develop steady coping habits that last beyond the sessions.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Angela uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques presented in clear, step-by-step ways. Mindfulness-based practices involve brief grounding exercises and breathing work to reduce anxiety and help people notice their physical reactions. These are easy to practise during video or phone sessions and as short daily exercises between meetings. Gestalt-informed methods focus on present-moment awareness and how people experience feelings and relationships in real time. This often involves noticing body sensations and immediate reactions, which can be explored effectively through conversation and guided exercises online.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to test techniques and adjust them to suit goals and preferences. Together they choose which tools to keep, which to change, and how to pace progress so therapy feels useful and manageable.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls give visual connection for deeper conversational work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits short check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and make it simpler to use routine moments for skill practice.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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