About Angela
Angela Gardner is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in North Carolina. She has nine years of experience as an LCSW and supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD. Angela greets each person with a straightforward, compassionate approach and focuses on practical steps that fit everyday life.
Her sessions aim to be calm and nonjudgmental. She encourages people to speak openly about difficult feelings like shame, anger, or loneliness.
Background and approach
Angela listens for the problems that matter most to each person and helps set clear, manageable goals. Angela uses a mix of approaches to match the situation. She often draws on cognitive behavioral methods to identify unhelpful thinking patterns.
She also practices client-centered skills to create space for people to lead the conversation. She supports parents dealing with family strain and caregivers coping with stress. She works with people affected by trauma, relationship problems, mood disorders, and issues tied to adoption, autism, or intellectual disability.
Angela also helps those facing discrimination, LGBT concerns, or compassion fatigue. Sessions can include practical tools such as mindfulness skills, emotion-focused work around relationships, and steps to manage daily overwhelm. The aim is steady progress through useful homework, small behavior changes, and regular check-ins.
People who choose Angela can expect a collaborative process that blends listening with clear strategies. She helps people move from feeling stuck toward everyday routines that feel more manageable.
Approaches that guide online work
Angela often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in online sessions. ACT focuses on identifying personal values and taking small actions that align with those values while learning to live with uncomfortable thoughts rather than fighting them. CBT helps spot unhelpful thinking patterns and replaces them with more workable thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and low mood.She also brings client-centered techniques, which means the therapist follows the person’s lead, asks open questions, and reflects what she hears. Finding the right method is collaborative - Angela will discuss goals and try different ways of working until a fit emerges. Clients and the therapist adjust strategies together based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls are useful for a regular therapy rhythm and visual connection. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat or text-based messaging supports brief updates, check-ins between sessions, or people who prefer typing their thoughts. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around school, work, and family life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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