About Angela
Angela Therrien is a licensed mental health counselor with 13 years of clinical experience. She practices in Massachusetts and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction-related concerns, depression, grief, trauma, and self-esteem issues. Angela presents a direct and interactive style that aims to move conversations into practical change.
Her approach combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Mindfulness, Motivational Interviewing, and Psychodynamic ideas. Sessions emphasize clear communication - she listens, paraphrases, and checks understanding so both people are on the same page.
Background and approach
She uses short assignments between sessions to build skills and momentum. Angela has a long background supporting people affected by substance use and related challenges. That work shaped a practical way of working that can feel warm yet straightforward.
She avoids stigmatizing labels and focuses on the steps a person can take now. She is honest about limits and will raise them if a case needs a different kind of help. If therapy is a good fit, she tailors conversations and goals to each person’s situation and checks progress along the way.
Angela encourages patience - change usually takes time and steady effort. Therapy with her is aimed at breaking down problems into doable steps. People who prefer a clear, action-oriented therapist may find her style helpful.
She currently offers video sessions only and works in English.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety and improve mood. It breaks big problems into concrete steps that can be practiced between sessions.DBT, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clear interpersonal skills. It can help when strong emotions, relationship conflicts, or patterns like codependency get in the way of daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist and client will decide together which methods fit best based on symptoms, goals, and how someone prefers to work. The plan can change as progress is made and new needs appear.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for in-depth work, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and live chat or text-based messaging can support quick skill practice or ongoing check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep steady momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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