About Angela
Angela Mallard greets visitors with calm, direct support. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 14 years of experience. Angela aims to create a straightforward, practical space where people can talk about what feels hard and start to find ways forward.
She has spent much of her career in outpatient settings. That has included school settings, office-based work, and in-home family sessions. Over the years she has supported people facing depression, anxiety, parenting strain, relationship problems, trauma and abuse, and stress related to caregiving and work.
Background and approach
Angela’s approach centers on the person in front of her. She draws on client-centered methods and solution-focused work to help people identify small steps that lead to change. Cognitive behavioral ideas and mindfulness practices are used when they fit the person’s goals and preferences.
Sessions emphasize practical tools and steady listening. Angela works to understand each person’s story, strengths, and immediate priorities before suggesting specific strategies. She aims to both support and empower people as they move through challenges.
Based in Florida, Angela brings experience with a wide range of family and relationship concerns, addictions, grief, anger, and issues such as adoption and foster care, blended families, and first responder stress. Her style is compassionate and goal-oriented, focused on helping people make usable changes in day-to-day life.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Angela uses client-centered methods that focus on the person’s priorities and strengths. This approach involves listening closely, asking questions to clarify what matters most, and shaping sessions around the client’s goals. It helps when someone wants a supportive space to make sense of difficult feelings or life changes.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is used to identify patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. CBT involves setting small, manageable tasks and testing new ways of responding to stress, anxiety, or low mood. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and practical relationship or parenting concerns.
Finding the right approach is a joint effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or has not worked in the past. Together they will choose and adapt strategies so therapy fits the client rather than forcing a single method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people send short messages between sessions or have a lower-effort session when schedules are tight. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity while working toward goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi
- Languages
- English