About Angela
Angela Hastings is a licensed master social worker in Michigan with 12 years of clinical experience. She offers a warm, interactive approach and aims to create a steady, supportive relationship with each person. Her style leans toward mentorship and coaching while letting clients set the goals and pace of work.
She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. Addictions, trauma and abuse, and compassion fatigue are also within her scope.
How Angela works
Angela pays special attention to body image, eating and food-related issues, self-harm, and panic attacks when these concerns appear. Her work is primarily client-centered, which means the client’s priorities guide sessions. Angela also uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy.
Solution-focused techniques and mindfulness practices are added when they match a person’s goals. Sessions typically involve collaborative problem solving, skill building, and short-term strategies to reduce distress. Angela describes her role as coming alongside a person to coach and mentor through hard moments.
She emphasizes unconditional compassion while helping people try new ways of coping. People looking to begin can expect straightforward conversations about goals and small, doable steps between sessions. She meets clients where they are, including in matters of faith and personal values.
The aim is steady progress toward clearer thinking, better coping, and more day-to-day relief.
Angela lists 5 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
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
How her approaches shape online therapy
Angela uses client-centered therapy to build sessions around each person’s priorities and values. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and letting the client set goals so work stays relevant to real life. Cognitive behavioral therapy offers practical tools to notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes that reduce anxiety and depression. That approach is useful for managing panic attacks, worry, and mood shifts.Finding the right fit is part of the process. Angela will collaborate with a person to choose which methods to try based on their goals and preferences. She often combines elements of different approaches so sessions focus on skills, short-term solutions, and longer-term insight as needed.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it simpler to have quick updates, brief coaching, or ongoing contact between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied daily routines.
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