About Angel
Angel Damara is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She also supports those facing parenting strain, relationship and intimacy concerns, addiction struggles, grief, sleep problems, and life changes. Angel works from Oregon and brings 17 years of experience in mental and behavioral health to her work.
She takes a practical, down-to-earth approach in sessions. Angel blends talk therapy with skills practice so people leave with tools they can use.
Background and approach
She encourages self-awareness and steady steps toward goals rather than quick fixes. Angel draws on several proven methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills. She also uses attachment-based ideas to help people improve relationships and build trust.
These methods are adapted to each person’s situation and values. Her background includes many years addressing addictions, mood disorders, trauma, chronic pain, and related challenges in both community and clinical settings. Angel has experience working with people who have faced homelessness, caregiving stress, complicated grief, and adoption or foster care issues.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to what feels manageable. Angel aims to create a calm, non-judgmental space where people can talk through hard topics, learn coping strategies, and try small changes that add up over time.
Therapy approaches you can use online
Angel commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice and accept difficult thoughts and feelings while taking steps that match what matters to them; it can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and helps people build healthier ways of relating and feeling safe in relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to decide which methods fit best for their goals, preferences, and everyday life. That means trying things, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan over time in collaboration with the client.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video is useful for deeper conversation and skills practice, phone works when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to be on camera, and chat or text can be a shorter check-in or a way to process between sessions. These options give flexibility so therapy can continue when schedules, travel, or other constraints change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Oregon, Washington
- Languages
- English