About Angelica
Angelica Curiel-Torres is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in California. She brings eight years of professional experience supporting people facing stress, anxiety, relationship problems, anger, and big life changes. She speaks English and Spanish and works with adults who want practical help to feel steadier day to day.
Her style is straightforward and respectful. Angelica treats each person as the expert on their own life. She looks for strengths and small steps that can lead to meaningful change.
Background and approach
Many sessions focus on clear goals and useful tools you can try between meetings. Angelica uses a mix of approaches to match what each person needs. She often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors.
She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to listen closely and shape work around your priorities. Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused techniques help when people want to make concrete changes and build momentum. In a session you can expect practical conversation and gentle challenge.
Angelica helps people name what matters, notice patterns, and make plans they can follow. She pays attention to how stress and compassion fatigue affect everyday life and work. She aims to make starting therapy easy and manageable.
If someone wants to try online options or shorter check-ins, Angelica offers formats suited to different schedules. The focus stays on realistic steps that fit each person’s life and goals.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the person's goals. In online sessions this means the therapist reflects your priorities and helps you shape the work at your pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical techniques to try between sessions. It can help with anxiety, stress, and changing patterns that get in the way of daily life.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with you about your goals, try approaches that fit your situation, and adjust over time. That way the work stays relevant and you stay involved in deciding what helps most.
Online care offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let you use visual cues and more in-depth conversation. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or have shorter touchpoints. These options let people fit therapy into real life, try different formats, and keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
- Coping with life changes
Also works with
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish