- Strengths focused
- Attachment aware
- Practical tools
About Angela
Angela Avery is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 22 years of experience. She helps people who are stressed, anxious, dealing with grief, or coping after trauma. She also supports those facing relationship and family tensions, struggles with self-esteem, and parenting concerns. Angela emphasizes collaboration and a steady, patient pace so people can feel heard and make practical changes.
Her work aims to build on strengths and create realistic steps forward. She uses conversational, client-centered techniques to help people tell their story and decide what matters most. Cognitive approaches are brought in to change unhelpful thinking and behavior when that fits a person's goals. Attachment-informed ideas guide work on connection, loss, and caregiving struggles.
Angela has particular experience with adoption and foster care related concerns and with issues of abandonment and attachment. She also supports people dealing with compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, blended family challenges, and recovery from domestic violence. Her practice includes attention to mood concerns such as depression and disruptive mood dysregulation patterns.
Therapy with Angela focuses on practical tools and steady emotional support. She combines motivational interviewing to boost readiness for change with dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation when needed. The pace and techniques are chosen together so clients can try things that fit their life.
People who choose her often want a warm, down-to-earth clinician who listens and helps them make realistic plans. She encourages small steps, clear goals, and follow-through to build lasting improvements.
How therapeutic approaches guide online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how early and current relationships shape feelings and behavior; it helps with abandonment, attachment challenges, and family-of-origin concerns. Client-centered therapy centers the person telling their story, offering active listening and empathy to help people clarify values and next steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, lift mood, and change unhelpful patterns.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to emphasize and adjust plans over time in a collaborative way.
Confirm current session options before booking, as specific formats are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives - for example, sessions can be scheduled during a lunch break or when travel would otherwise make in-person visits hard. It also lets people meet from a familiar room and makes consistent follow-up more practical. Ask about the available session formats and scheduling when you complete the short matching questionnaire before booking.
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Experience
22+ years
Credentials
Florida
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What issues does Angela focus on?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and family tensions, parenting concerns, self-esteem, ADHD, and related challenges such as abandonment and attachment issues.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is warm, supportive, and collaborative. She blends client-centered listening with practical techniques so clients can set goals and try real-world changes.
How long has she been practicing?
She has 22 years of clinical experience working with a range of concerns and life transitions.
Where is she licensed and located?
She is a Florida LMHC, practicing in Florida.
Which languages are used in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people from other countries work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin working together?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.