About Angela
Angela Gardner is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings nine years of experience in clinical practice. She offers steady, practical support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, mood struggles, and relationship concerns. Her style is warm and straightforward, and she aims to make starting therapy feel manageable for busy parents and caregivers.
She focuses on helping people cope with life changes, parenting strain, grief, trauma, and issues tied to identity such as LGBT concerns.
Background and approach
She also works with people facing ADHD, bipolar disorder, depression, and compassion fatigue. Sessions emphasize clear steps you can try between meetings and space to talk through hard feelings. Her approach blends practical thinking with emotional attention.
Angela uses methods that help people notice patterns, try small changes, and build clearer communication with others. She encourages clients to name feelings and take actions that match their values. Angela aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental environment.
She invites honest conversation about shame, guilt, isolation, and family conflict. Parents and caregivers will find focused strategies for coping and improving daily routines. People who prefer a collaborative, down-to-earth therapist may connect well with her.
She accepts sessions in English and offers online formats that can fit into a busy schedule. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling the first session.
How Angela’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice hard thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take steps that match their values. This can help when life changes feel overwhelming or when anxiety prevents action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to change mood and stress. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing day-to-day coping skills. Client-Centered Therapy concentrates on empathetic listening and offering a steady, nonjudgmental space so people feel heard and can make their own choices.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Angela will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress and needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different rhythms of life. Video lets people read visual cues and have longer conversations. Phone can be faster when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, coaching between sessions, and when writing helps people sort thoughts. These options make it easier to schedule consistent work around parenting, caregiving, and busy days.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English