- Years in practice
- 22
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Angela
Angela Avery is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 22 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting challenges, or the fallout from trauma and abuse. She aims to listen carefully and help clients use their strengths to make real changes.
Clients can expect a supportive, collaborative approach that moves at their pace. Sessions focus on clear, practical steps such as improving communication, managing strong emotions, and developing routines that reduce daily stress.
Background and approach
Angela uses tools from cognitive behavioral work to identify unhelpful thinking and try small behavior changes. Attachment-based ideas guide how she looks at relationship patterns and closeness issues. Those concepts help people understand why certain conflicts or intimacy problems repeat.
She also draws on client-centered practices to make space for each person’s perspective and priorities. Parents often seek help with blended family adjustments, adoption and foster care concerns, attachment issues, and coping with big life shifts. Angela also supports people facing compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, body image concerns, and recovery from domestic violence or abandonment wounds.
Her work blends practical skill-building and reflective conversation. The goal is to reduce immediate distress while creating tools clients can use long after sessions end. Starting therapy is framed as a step-by-step process, with attention to what feels most useful to each person.
What Angela works with
Everything Angela lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Angela helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Angela lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Online approaches that fit parenting and relationship work
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape how people connect and react. It helps with intimacy issues, attachment struggles, and recurring family patterns by naming how those patterns show up day to day. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or low mood. It is practical and problem oriented, useful for stress, anxiety, and coping with change. Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes the person's own goals and rhythm, giving space for people to reflect and decide what matters most to them.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Angela will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that match those priorities. That collaborative planning helps make sessions feel relevant and focused on measurable next steps.
Online therapy offers choices like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick reflections, daily tracking, or when people prefer written conversation. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to keep progress steady between sessions.
Questions people ask about Angela
What kinds of problems can be addressed here?
Angela works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, anger, ADHD, and related struggles listed in her specialties.
What is her therapy style like?
The approach is warm and collaborative. Sessions combine client-centered listening with practical steps drawn from cognitive behavioral and attachment-informed methods.
How much experience does she have?
She has 22 years of clinical experience helping people manage life changes, family and relationship stress, trauma, and emotional regulation.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Florida LMHC - licensed mental health counselor working with clients from Florida.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be done via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started with therapy?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
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