About Angela
Angela Alderman-Shotton is a licensed professional counselor who offers calm, practical support for people facing strong emotions and life shifts. She focuses on helping clients manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and issues around self-esteem. Angela works from Oklahoma and uses straightforward, respectful conversation to help people find what works for them.
Her practice emphasizes a person-centered stance that honors each client's story. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
How Angela works
Motivational Interviewing is used to build readiness and strengthen commitment to change when people feel stuck. Angela also brings existential ideas about meaning and choice into sessions for those wrestling with life purpose and identity. The Gottman Method informs her work with people dealing with relationship patterns and communication difficulties.
She integrates these approaches to match each person's needs rather than using one fixed method. She has 11 years of clinical experience in areas including trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, parenting concerns, and family-of-origin problems. Additional focuses include attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, blended family challenges, and caregiver stress.
Sessions are delivered in ways that fit modern life, such as video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. Angela aims to help people build clearer communication, stronger coping skills, and more grounded self-confidence over time.
Angela lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Angela works with
The areas below are the ones Angela selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oklahoma |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Angela blends Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people sort through feelings and change patterns that cause distress. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, acceptance, and helping people find their own solutions, which can be useful for building self-esteem and clarity. CBT looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical techniques for reducing anxiety, depression, and unhelpful habits.Finding the right approach is part of the work and Angela treats it as a collaboration. She will talk with clients about goals and preferences, try different methods, and adjust the plan as needed. That shared decision-making helps match methods to the person rather than forcing a single style.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy schedules and different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets clients send ongoing notes between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain regular work on concerns such as stress, relationship patterns, and coping skills.
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