About Angelique
Angelique (Gigi) Tsontos is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience helping people through major life changes. She holds LCSW in California and LSCSW in Kansas and practices from a compassionate, practical standpoint. Gigi focuses on clear goals and steady progress in sessions.
Her work often starts with immediate concerns like stress, anxiety, grief, or problems with communication. She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, workplace issues, addiction concerns, and questions about sexuality or identity.
Background and approach
She pays special attention to adoption and foster care, attachment issues, and recovery from sexual assault and domestic violence. Gigi blends client-centered listening with evidence-informed tools. She helps clients notice unhelpful thinking patterns, try new ways of responding, and tell a clearer story about their life.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods are used when people want concrete steps and quicker momentum. In sessions she aims to make goals realistic and measurable. She works with each person to set small, achievable changes and then tracks progress.
This practical rhythm helps clients build confidence and reduce overwhelm. People who prefer a cooperative, straightforward style tend to fit well with her approach. Gigi invites curiosity about past patterns while staying focused on present changes.
She offers support for midlife decisions, career transitions, parenting stress, and broader questions about life purpose.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and supporting each person where they are. The therapist follows your lead, mirrors your concerns, and helps you name priorities to work on. This approach often helps people who need a safe space to sort through feelings and decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. Sessions include practical exercises and experiments to change thinking patterns and routines. This method suits people dealing with anxiety, depression, or unhelpful habits who want clear tools to try between sessions.
Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels stuck about change. It uses gentle questions to uncover personal reasons for change and to build motivation. This approach can be useful for addiction concerns, workplace shifts, or making life-direction decisions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. They often combine methods so the plan matches the client’s needs and pace in a collaborative way.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people see facial cues and use worksheets on screen. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is low or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates, questions between sessions, or more frequent contact without a full appointment. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, and travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Grief
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Kansas, California
- Languages
- English