About Angela
Angela Mendiola offers practical, down-to-earth help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, loss, or big life changes. She focuses on clear goals and simple strategies that can be used right away. Angela aims to create a respectful, listening space where people feel heard and understood.
Angela is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, with ten years of experience. She trained in Hawaii and has worked across community and school settings.
How Angela works
Her background includes work with grief, relationship struggles, addictions, and mood concerns. She also supports people dealing with issues related to identity, self-esteem, and body image. Her approach mixes client-centered care with practical tools.
Angela uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. She brings mindfulness techniques to help with stress and grounding. She also draws on Motivational Interviewing to support change when people feel stuck.
Sessions typically start by clarifying what the person wants to work on. Angela helps set small, achievable goals and builds coping skills the person can practice between sessions. Conversations are straightforward and focused on concrete steps rather than long explanations.
People often come for help with parenting strain, relationship problems, addiction or compulsive behaviors, and career or life transitions. Angela also works with concerns like attachment issues, domestic violence impacts, guilt, shame, obsessive-compulsive patterns, and young adult challenges. She provides resources and readings when they can help move progress forward.
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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
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Guilt and shame
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Hawaii |
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Online support options
How Angela's Methods Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s goals at the center of each session. The therapist listens closely and follows what matters most to the client, helping them name priorities and decide next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and gives simple exercises to try new behaviors and reduce distress. Mindfulness Therapy teaches attention and grounding practices to reduce stress and sharpen focus.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Angela will talk with the person about their goals, preferences, and daily life, then recommend strategies that fit. She checks in regularly and adjusts methods as progress and needs change so the plan stays practical and useful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits shorter check-ins, and messaging helps people keep momentum between sessions. These options let people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep contact consistent even when travel or distance is a factor.
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