About Angela
Angela Williams meets people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or strained by life's demands. She offers a calm, straightforward space to talk about stress, anxiety, grief, relationship trouble, addiction, mood shifts, parenting worries, or questions about identity. Angela is a licensed mental health counselor - LMHC - practicing in New York and has spent a decade in clinical work.
Her approach is practical and person-focused. She listens first, then helps people set clear goals and try small changes that build confidence.
How Angela works
Sessions are conversational and paced to match what each person needs in the moment. Angela uses tools that address thoughts, emotions, and behavior so people can manage symptoms and feel steadier day to day. She draws on personal experience with grief, divorce, parenting, anxiety, depression, and family members who faced mental health and addiction issues.
That background informs a down-to-earth style and an emphasis on making therapy useful for everyday life. Expect empathy, direct feedback, and real-world suggestions you can try between sessions.
Angela works with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy problems, parenting and family stress, eating and sleeping difficulties, chronic illness and caregiver strain, career and life transitions, and challenges tied to identity and attachment. She also supports people coping with mood disorders, substance concerns, ADHD, and grief.
Her goal is to help people build skills, strengthen relationships, and move toward goals that matter. If someone wants clear steps and thoughtful support, Angela provides a steady, practical presence in therapy.
Angela lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace 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 | New York |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small, meaningful actions even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. It can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches skills to shift unhelpful habits and reactions, which is useful for stress, mood problems, and sleep or eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current patterns in intimacy and trust, helping people improve connection and manage relationship strain.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Angela will listen to your goals and preferences and recommend methods that fit your situation. She adapts techniques across sessions so the plan can change as progress is made, keeping collaboration central to the process.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you meet face to face when conversation and tone matter. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for shorter updates, homework check-ins, or when written reflection feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or busy days while using proven therapeutic approaches.
Start online instead of waiting
Our partner service asks a few questions about what you are looking for and matches you with a therapist for sessions from home.
Explore online therapy optionsWe will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.
Common questions
What kinds of problems does Angela help with?
What is her therapeutic style like?
How much clinical experience does she have?
Where is Angela licensed and based?
Which languages are sessions offered in?
What session formats are available?
How does pricing work for sessions?
How do I start therapy with Angela?
A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you. Entries are not assessed or endorsed by this directory.
Other entries for stress, anxiety
Supportive LCSW helping people build strength and clarity
Practical, trauma-aware therapy for everyday life
Practical, relational therapy for life transitions