About Angela
Angela Sheffler is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Missouri with eight years of experience in mental health. She guides people through anxiety, stress, depression, and the fallout of trauma and abuse. Her manner is warm and down-to-earth, and she aims to walk alongside clients rather than direct them.
Angela has worked across many settings, including residential programs, inpatient care, in-home services, and schools. She has experience supporting people with intellectual disabilities and those on the autism spectrum.
How Angela works
In recent years she has focused on serving LGBT people and on concerns such as parenting, relationships, and intimacy-related issues. Her work emphasizes practical skills. She shares mindfulness exercises, calming strategies, and communication tools.
She encourages practicing skills between meetings to build confidence and notice change. Angela uses a client-centered stance that emphasizes each person as the expert on their life. She also draws on attachment-focused ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings and behavior.
Cognitive and behavioral strategies are used when helping people manage anxiety, panic, and mood shifts. She is straightforward about pacing: healing takes time, and small steps matter. Messages are checked regularly during the week, and Angela steps away from messages from Friday at 4 pm until Monday morning to spend time with family.
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current emotions and behavior. Online work can use this approach to identify patterns that affect closeness, trust, and self-worth and then practice new ways of relating.Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping each person find their own solutions. This style supports people who need a steady, nonjudgmental space to talk through decisions and hard feelings.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers practical tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT techniques work well in video or phone sessions where homework and step-by-step practice can be reviewed between meetings.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Angela works collaboratively to match methods to a person's goals, preferences, and the specific issues they bring. She will adjust pace and techniques as needs become clearer.
Online therapy can fit into busy lives by offering flexible formats. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill teaching. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and ongoing support possible between sessions. These options help people access therapy in ways that fit their routines and comfort level.
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