About Angela
Angela Avery is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 22 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship strain. She aims to help clients build on their strengths and move toward the life they want.
Angela uses straightforward, collaborative care. Sessions focus on practical steps, clearer communication, and restoring emotional balance. She listens first, then helps people notice patterns and try new ways of coping.
How Angela works
Her background spans long-term counseling with adults who struggle with self-esteem, motivation, grief, and parenting pressure. She also addresses intimacy-related issues, anger, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related challenges. This range gives her experience with both sudden life changes and long-standing problems.
Therapy draws from several approaches. Angela blends attachment-based work and client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thoughts. She may also use dialectical skills for emotional regulation and motivational interviewing to support change when motivation feels stuck.
Sessions are paced to each person’s needs. The goal is practical progress that fits daily life, such as improved communication, steadier mood, and better coping with stress. Angela emphasizes respectful partnership and steady steps toward manageable change.
People who choose her typically want a calm, thoughtful therapist who listens and helps them try real strategies. She aims to create a space where clients can practice new ways of thinking and behaving, then bring those changes into family life and work.
Angela lists 8 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Angela often draws on attachment-based work to help people understand how early connections shape current relationships. That approach looks at patterns of closeness and distance and helps people try new ways of relating to others.She also uses client-centered methods that prioritize listening and the client’s own goals. This means sessions are driven by what the person wants to work on and move toward. Cognitive behavioral therapy complements those methods by offering concrete techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress.
Finding the right mix is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose approaches that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Together they track what helps and adjust the plan as therapy progresses.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual cues and longer conversation matter. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter call is preferred. Live chat and text messaging allow short check-ins, brief reflections, or support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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