About Angela
Angela Simbro greets people with calm focus and practical steps. She is a licensed social worker - Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Clinical Social Worker - practicing in Missouri. Angela aims to meet clients where they are and help them build clearer routines and coping skills.
She approaches concerns through a trauma-informed lens, paying attention to safety and a client's immediate needs. Conversations tend to include teaching skills, trying new behavioral strategies, and grounding techniques to ease strong emotions.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and geared toward everyday changes that make life easier. Angela uses a mix of evidence-informed methods to match each person's situation. Expect straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral approaches, acceptance-focused ideas, and mindfulness practices.
She often weaves in coaching-style planning to help with motivation and next steps. Common areas she addresses include stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, self-esteem and motivation, addictions, grief, sleep and eating concerns, and managing mood conditions. She also supports issues related to adoption and foster care, autism, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and identity concerns.
With six years of clinical experience, Angela balances practical skill teaching with attention to each person's strengths. She emphasizes clear, usable strategies so people can try things between sessions and track what helps them most.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice tough thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, motivation problems, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily functioning; it often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep, and eating patterns. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist follows the client's lead to build insight and confidence.Finding the right fit is part of the work. Angela will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try approaches that match those needs. The process is collaborative so techniques can be adjusted as progress is tracked and new priorities emerge.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use visual cues and practice skills together. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins, skill reminders, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options provide flexibility to fit therapy into busy days while keeping the focus on practical skills and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Kansas
- Languages
- English