About Angela
Angela Avery is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 22 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or the effects of trauma. She also supports those coping with relationship or family strain, parenting challenges, ADHD concerns, and low self-esteem.
Her style is warm and collaborative. Angela listens closely and works at a pace that feels manageable. She focuses on practical steps you can use between sessions as well as on understanding patterns that keep problems repeating.
Background and approach
Angela blends several approaches to match each person's needs. She uses client-centered listening to follow what matters most to the person in front of her. She also offers tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns.
Dialectical skills and attachment-based ideas inform her work with intense emotions and relationship themes. People come to her for help with anger, intimacy-related issues, abandonment or attachment wounds, blended family adjustments, body image, caregiver stress, and communication problems. She has a long history supporting people after separation, domestic violence, or other disruptive life events.
Sessions aim to build clearer goals, better coping skills, and small, sustainable changes. Angela encourages people to use their strengths while learning new ways to manage feelings and relationships. The approach is practical, steady, and focused on what will help now.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Angela draws on client-centered therapy to prioritize each person's goals and lived experience, offering a listening-first approach that keeps the work grounded in what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is used to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and trouble focusing. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) provides concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying practical techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan over time as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping focus on steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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