About Angel
Angel Damara helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, parenting strains, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She also supports people coping with grief, sleep problems, anger, low self-esteem, career changes, ADHD, bipolar symptoms, and compassion fatigue. Angel is named up front so readers know who they will meet.
Angel is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW and LICSW - with 17 years of experience in mental and behavioral health.
How Angel works
She spent several years working with Veterans on PTSD, insomnia and nightmares, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, chronic pain, and substance concerns. Her background includes work in both addictions and mental health settings. Her style blends practical talk with attention to meaning and personal values.
Angel uses tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and dialectical behavior ideas to teach skills for handling intense emotions and unhelpful thinking. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice what matters most and take steps toward that life. Attachment-based and client-centered perspectives shape how she builds sessions.
This means she listens closely, focuses on the relationship in the room, and helps people strengthen connections with others. She emphasizes open-minded, honest work without judgment. Sessions aim to increase self-awareness and daily coping.
Angel partners with each person to set clear goals and practice skills between sessions. The work is practical, paced to the individual, and oriented toward making real changes in day-to-day life.
Angel lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Angel works with
The areas below are the ones Angel selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oregon |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match personal goals, which can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is about identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. It teaches concrete skills for managing mood, sleep, and stress, and works well in short skill-focused sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how relationships shape feelings and behavior. It supports building safer, more satisfying ways of relating to others and can help with intimacy and family-related concerns.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will help figure out which methods fit a person's needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process means techniques can be adjusted over time based on what feels most useful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people work more like an in-person session while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Quick check-ins or ongoing support are possible through chat and text when short updates or skill reminders are helpful. These options help people keep therapy steady around daily life and responsibilities.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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