About Angela
Angela Williams is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with anxiety, stress, depression, relationship challenges, and addiction. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aiming to make therapy feel like a practical place to solve problems.
She offers a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through what brought them to therapy. Sessions include listening, emotional support, and clear tools to handle day-to-day struggles.
Background and approach
She draws on several evidence-informed methods to match each person's needs. Angela has ten years of experience working with a wide range of concerns. That background includes helping people cope with trauma, grief, parenting strains, and workplace stress.
Personal experience with loss, divorce, parenting, and family addiction has shaped how she relates to clients and the kinds of support she offers. In sessions she mixes practical skills and insight work. That may include learning concrete coping strategies, practicing new ways to respond to strong emotions, or looking at patterns in relationships.
The goal is to translate what happens in therapy into changes that feel useful in daily life. She works with adults on issues like intimacy, self-esteem, eating and sleeping concerns, ADHD, and major life transitions. Angela also supports people dealing with chronic illness, caregiving stress, and the effects of attachment and abandonment on relationships.
She aims to help each person reach goals they set together.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values. It focuses on accepting difficult feelings while committing to actions that build a meaningful life, which can help with anxiety and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down unhelpful thinking patterns and teaches practical skills to change behavior. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and coping with stress.Choosing an approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. That collaborative process may mix elements from ACT and CBT or shift emphasis as needs change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging works for brief check-ins or people who prefer typed communication. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or busy days while still focusing on practical skills and emotional support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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