About Angela
Angela Slocum, LMSW, helps people manage stress and anxiety and navigate major life changes. She works with individuals on relationship struggles, grief, depression, and everyday coping so they can feel steadier in daily life. She centers conversations on the person's experience and listens without judgment.
Sessions focus on what matters most to the client and on small, practical steps that can ease pressure right away. Angela aims to create a calm space where people can say what they need to say and figure out next steps.
Background and approach
Angela brings ten years of professional counseling experience and more than twenty years in social work to her practice. That background informs how she supports people through transitions such as loss, caregiving stress, shifting family roles, and workplace strain. She is familiar with issues that come with aging, chronic illness, blended families, and end-of-life planning.
Her approach emphasizes collaboration and short-term, goal-oriented work when that fits. Many clients work on clearer communication, repairing or redefining relationships, or managing anxiety and depressive feelings with concrete strategies. Angela also helps people handle financial stress, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, and the loneliness that sometimes follows major life events.
Sessions are offered in English from Michigan and use practical tools drawn from client-centered practice, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused methods. She supports people who want steady, respectful help as they take steps toward change.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy means the conversation begins with the client's priorities. The therapist listens closely and reflects what she hears so clients feel understood and can choose the goals they want to work on. This approach is helpful for people who need a supportive space to talk through anxiety, grief, or relationship concerns.Motivational interviewing uses guided questions to help people find their own reasons to change. It focuses on strengths and practical next steps, which can help with motivation around life changes, caregiving tasks, or healthier habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review needs, goals, and personal preferences and then suggest which methods to try first. That choice can change over time as progress is made or priorities shift, and decisions are made collaboratively.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules. Video calls are useful when face-to-face conversation helps, phone sessions can be easier during a short break, and chat or text suit quick check-ins or times when writing feels more comfortable. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent during busy or changing schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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