About Angela
Angela Williams is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or life changes. She also supports those dealing with relationship strain, grief, addictions, and ADHD concerns.
Angela aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about what brought them to therapy. She listens first, then works with each person to set clear, practical goals.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and focused on usable tools for everyday life. With ten years of experience, Angela draws on several therapy methods to match a client's needs. She uses cognitive-behavioral ideas to clarify thinking patterns and build new habits.
She also brings acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice what matters and take value-driven action. Attachment-based and client-centered principles shape how she relates to people in the room. That means paying attention to relationship patterns and offering a respectful, collaborative stance.
Dialectical skills are used when strong emotions or self-regulation are central concerns. Her personal experience with grief, parenting, relationship endings, and family members with mental health or addiction challenges informs her empathy. Angela helps people break down big problems into small steps.
She focuses on what clients can try between sessions to make steady progress.
Therapeutic approaches for online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify personal values and take small steps toward them even when feelings are difficult. It’s useful for anxiety, low mood, and motivation problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Angela will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then choose methods together. That collaborative process means approaches can be blended and adjusted as needs change over time.
Online sessions use video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit a busy life. Video works well for a full session that feels conversational. Phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Chat and text are helpful for brief check-ins, skill coaching between visits, or when a shorter format is needed. These options add flexibility so people can keep momentum and practice new skills more consistently.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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