About Angela
Angela Ellison is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and changes in their lives. She meets individuals where they are and focuses on practical steps to feel better. She works with concerns like sleep and eating issues, addiction, ADHD, and self-esteem struggles.
Angela practices from Kentucky and offers sessions in English. She uses a straightforward, person-focused style. Sessions emphasize listening and building on a person’s existing strengths.
Background and approach
Angela draws on techniques from cognitive behavioral work, emotion-focused methods, and mindfulness to help people notice patterns and try small changes. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused ideas guide goal-setting and short-term plans. Before becoming a clinician, Angela spent many years in social work roles across health settings.
She brings varied experience supporting people with chronic illness, caregiver stress, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and mood disorders. That background informs her practical approach to coping and daily routines. Therapy with her is collaborative and paced to the person’s needs.
Angela helps clients identify habits to shift, experiments to try between sessions, and ways to manage strong feelings in the moment. She uses clear, everyday language and keeps work grounded in daily life. Angela holds a master’s-level Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, listed as KY LCSW 254396.
She has five years of clinical experience in her current practice setting and provides sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Approaches that guide online work
Angela blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral tools and mindfulness practices to help people manage distress and build coping skills. Client-centered work means she listens closely and follows the person’s priorities while offering support and reflection to clarify goals. Cognitive behavioral techniques focus on spotting thought and behavior patterns that keep stress and mood problems going and testing small changes to shift those patterns. Mindfulness practice teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and improve sleep and emotional regulation.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Angela will talk with each person about their needs and goals, try an approach, and adjust based on what is most helpful. This collaborative process helps identify which tools fit a person’s life and schedule.
Online sessions use video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can support brief check-ins, between-session coaching, or people who prefer writing to talking. These options help therapy fit around work, caregiving, and daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English