About Angela
Angela "Angie" Lester is a licensed clinical social worker in Georgia who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, mood challenges, and trauma. She focuses on practical steps you can use between sessions. Angie aims to be direct, respectful, and compassionate in sessions so people can start feeling steadier sooner.
Angie uses short-term strategies and longer-term skills depending on the situation. She draws on client-centered work, cognitive behavioral approaches, acceptance and commitment ideas, dialectical skills, and mindfulness practices.
Background and approach
Sessions are tailored to individual needs and shaped around the goals each person brings to therapy. Her background includes seven years working in mental health settings with a range of concerns. That experience includes helping people cope with abuse, grief, addiction, panic, attention challenges, and relationship difficulties.
She also works with issues related to first responder stress, veterans and armed forces concerns, and problems like abandonment or control struggles. In a session with Angie, expect a practical focus: talk through immediate problems, learn tools to manage mood and anxiety, and practice new ways to respond to painful memories or triggers.
She balances direct guidance with listening so people can choose what feels useful. Angela Lester holds the Georgia LCSW designation and also lists CSW. She offers online session formats and works in English.
To begin, a short matching process is used to connect people with her schedule and the right session type.
Approach-driven online care that fits your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them and commit to actions that match their values; it is often useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms of panic, depression, and mood disorders. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and improve focus for stress, trauma symptoms, and impulse control.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Angie will talk with each person about goals, daily challenges, and what methods feel most comfortable. Together they choose techniques and build a plan that can change as progress is made or new issues arise.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit varied schedules and needs. Video calls let you use visual cues during deeper work, phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option, and messaging or live chat can support quick check-ins or skill practice between longer sessions. These formats aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to keep up with while using the approaches described above.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Sexuality
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English