About Angela
Angela "Angie" Lester is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in Georgia. She has seven years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, and addiction. Her approach is straightforward and focused on practical steps people can use right away.
She uses a mix of evidence-based strategies to tailor care to each person's needs. Sessions aim to be respectful and compassionate while staying goal-oriented. Angie often helps people dealing with trauma, abuse, grief, and relationship or intimacy-related concerns.
How Angela works
Angela blends cognitive behavioral techniques with elements of dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness. Those tools are used to change unhelpful thoughts, build coping skills, and improve emotion regulation. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas are also part of her work when clients want to clarify values and take purposeful action.
Her style is direct and practical. She personalizes treatment plans and adjusts methods based on how a client responds. Angie emphasizes skills people can use between sessions to handle panic, mood shifts, and overwhelming stress.
People who choose her for therapy can expect a collaborative process that addresses concrete problems. She helps with parenting stress, career transitions, compassion fatigue, ADHD concerns, and issues tied to abandonment or adoption and foster care. Her goal is to support clients as they build more steady daily functioning and stronger coping habits.
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Sexuality
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, CSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
How Angie Uses Therapy Approaches Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. Online sessions can use ACT exercises to reduce avoidance and build committed action around life goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In an online session CBT tools help with anxiety, panic, depression, and mood shifts by practicing new ways of thinking and testing small behavioral changes.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Angie collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She adapts techniques over time based on what is helpful and what the person wants to focus on, so the plan evolves as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let you work face to face when you want a full session. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is low or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill practice between sessions, or when you need a convenient way to connect during a busy day.
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