About Angela
Angela Kalsbeek is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings six years of practice to her work with children, young people, and parents. She meets each person with compassion, kindness, and a focus on connection. Her style is down-to-earth and practical, helping families feel heard and understood in short, clear steps.
She adapts sessions to fit how each child learns best. That can mean using art, play, or sand tray activities to help someone put feelings into words.
Background and approach
She also uses strength-based approaches and simple cognitive strategies to help people notice and shift unhelpful thinking patterns. Mindfulness and teaching basic body-awareness are common parts of her sessions. Angela explains how the brain and body react to stress and offers small, concrete skills to help regulate emotions.
She shows parents straightforward ways to support children through big feelings and behavior changes. Her background includes work with adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, and caregiver stress. She also helps with anxiety, depression, relationship and family strain, and transitions like divorce or grief.
The focus is on practical tools that can be practiced at home and school. Outside of work she enjoys walking her dog Ruby, gardening, DIY seasonal projects, and going to concerts. Those interests inform a warm, relatable approach that aims to make therapy feel manageable and useful for everyday life.
Evidence-based approaches and online support
Angela commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. This approach breaks problems into small steps and teaches practical skills for anxiety, depression, and stress.She also uses play-based and art therapy methods for children, including sand tray and therapeutic play. These approaches let children express feelings through activities instead of only words and help caregivers see what emotions look like in behavior.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Angela will collaborate with the parent or young person to choose methods that fit their goals, learning style, and daily routine. She checks in and adjusts strategies as progress and needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversation and interactive exercises. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit brief updates or skill practice into a busy day. These options allow families to connect from wherever their schedule and surroundings work best.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English