About Angela
Angela Sheffler is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Missouri with eight years in the mental health field. She has worked in schools, residential programs, acute inpatient units, and in-home settings. Angela focuses on helping people who are struggling with anxiety, stress, trauma, depression, and major life changes.
Her approach feels down-to-earth and practical for people who want straightforward support. She emphasizes walking alongside clients rather than directing them.
Background and approach
Angela uses a caring and validating style and helps people practice skills between sessions. She often teaches mindfulness techniques and calming strategies to reduce anxiety and support emotional regulation. Angela draws on attachment-focused ideas to help with relationship and intimacy issues, and she uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to address patterns that keep anxiety or low mood going.
She also incorporates elements of dialectical behavior therapy when learning coping skills and managing strong emotions. Her experience includes supporting people with intellectual disability, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and those affected by sexual assault or abuse. She has worked with LGBTQ individuals over recent years and offers an accepting, nonjudgmental space for identity-related concerns.
Sessions are available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Angela checks and answers messages during the workweek and steps away from messages from Friday at 4 pm until Monday morning to spend time with family.
How Angela’s Approaches Work in Online Care
Angela commonly uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships influence current connections and feelings. This approach helps when trust, intimacy, or abandonment worries come up and gives a way to practice new ways of relating to others.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and then trying small, practical experiments to change them. CBT is useful for managing anxiety, panic, mood, and daily thinking patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Angela will talk with clients about their goals and preferences and suggest strategies that fit each person. The process is collaborative and adjustments can be made over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for regular check-ins and skill teaching when seeing faces helps. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when camera time is not desired. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, practicing skills, or fitting support into a busy day. These options aim to make it easier to attend sessions and continue progress from wherever someone is located.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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