About Angela
Angela DaSilva is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, anger, addiction, and parenting challenges. She brings 15 years of experience and a steady, practical approach to sessions. Angela aims to create a calm space where people can talk through problems and build useful coping skills.
Her work focuses on everyday strategies that make life easier. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people understand patterns, reduce symptoms, and try new ways of responding.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be straightforward and goal-oriented, with attention to what feels realistic for each person. Angela draws on a background of social work practice across settings in New York. That experience shaped her interest in helping people with strong emotions and habits that interfere with daily life.
She pays attention to individual strengths and practical limits when suggesting changes. In sessions she emphasizes collaboration. Clients and Angela set clear goals and review progress together.
Homework or small experiments between meetings are common and kept simple so they fit into busy routines. People who choose Angela often want practical tools and steady support rather than lengthy theory. She works to make therapy usable day to day, whether the focus is lowering anxiety, managing substance use patterns, calming anger, or navigating parenting stress.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Angela uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and symptom relief. One approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and testing small changes to see what helps reduce anxiety and depression. This method is useful for people who want clear steps to manage mood and worry.Another approach concentrates on building coping skills for strong emotions like anger and cravings related to addiction. It teaches simple strategies for emotion regulation, problem-solving, and managing urges so daily life feels more manageable. These skills are practiced in sessions and applied between meetings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Angela will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, preferences, and pace. This is a collaborative process that may adjust over time based on outcomes and comfort.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging helps fit support into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work and family commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Anger management
- Depression
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English