About Angel
Angel Ouza helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, or big life changes. She supports concerns around self-esteem, career strain, compassion fatigue, and relationship or family challenges. Angel is a licensed clinical social worker with both LMSW and LCSW credentials and has 19 years of clinical experience.
She uses straightforward, practical techniques and adapts her approach to each person. Sessions include coaching-style guidance, short homework tasks, and chances to practice new skills between meetings.
How Angel works
Angel blends talk therapy with evidence-based methods to address mindset, trauma, and the daily habits that get in the way of feeling better. Her work often focuses on helping people recover from emotional hurt such as abandonment, codependency, narcissistic abuse, and eating or body-image concerns.
Angel also supports those coping with chronic illness, caregiver stress, aging issues, blended family dynamics, and transitions like divorce or career change. She pays attention to how everyday routines affect mood and coping. Angel prefers a warm, direct style that balances listening with practical suggestions.
She mentions using tools like cognitive strategies, emotion-focused work, and acceptance-based exercises as needed. Sessions can be voice only when requested. Angel draws on nearly two decades of social work practice in California and brings a compassionate, nonjudgmental attitude to sessions.
She encourages small, consistent steps toward change and works together with people to set realistic goals and try what feels workable.
Angel lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMSW, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 19 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How Angel's Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and taking actions that match personal values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and adjusting to life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical exercises to reduce anxious or unhelpful thinking. CBT is useful for mood concerns, stress, and low self-esteem. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name and process strong emotions so they can build clearer patterns of feeling and responding, which supports recovery from trauma and relationship-related stress.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Angel will talk with each person about their goals, life situation, and preferences and then suggest methods to try. She adapts techniques over time and checks in about what is helping and what needs changing so the plan fits the person's needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well for voice-only meetings and can fit a quick check-in during a break, live chat can be used for short exchanges or coaching-style messages, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still using ACT, CBT, or emotion-focused techniques in practical ways.
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