About Angel
Angel Ouza is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship strain, and major life transitions. She draws on nearly two decades of social work experience to guide practical steps that make day-to-day life easier. Angel aims to offer steady support and plainspoken guidance for people feeling overwhelmed or stuck.
She takes a flexible, person-focused approach in sessions. Angel listens first and looks for simple, concrete changes that fit each person’s life.
Background and approach
She blends several methods to match the problem at hand rather than relying on a single technique. Sessions may include coaching-style suggestions, gentle skills practice, and homework when helpful. Angel’s background includes 19 years working in social work roles.
She holds a Master of Social Work and is licensed in California as an LCSW and in Michigan as an LMSW. That experience has given her exposure to a wide range of life stressors and coping needs.
People who work with Angel often focus on issues like self-esteem, navigating breakups or separation, burnout and compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, body image, and recovery from abuse or abandonment. She also supports career shifts, grief, chronic health challenges, and blended family concerns. Her style is direct, compassionate, and sometimes playful when it helps clients move forward.
Sessions are offered in English and can use phone, video, live chat, or text messaging. Angel encourages clients to treat therapy as a collaborative process and to take small, consistent steps between meetings to build change over time.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed actions toward them. It helps people who feel stuck regain direction and cope with painful thoughts. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding emotions and strengthening emotional connections within relationships, useful for improving communication and attachment issues.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Angel will work with each person to identify goals and try methods that match those goals. She adapts techniques over time and checks in about what is working and what needs changing.
Online therapy offers flexibility and easier access to consistent support. Video calls let people see facial cues and build rapport. Phone sessions and voice-only options use less bandwidth and can be simpler on busy days. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins or more frequent touchpoints between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while still using the therapeutic tools described above.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- California, Michigan
- Languages
- English