About Angel
Dr. Angel Hakim uses a client-centered approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, relationship issues, grief, and life changes. She brings 37 years of experience as a counselor and connects practical tools with personal values.
The first conversations are focused and respectful, aimed at helping people feel understood and find steps they can try between sessions. Dr. Hakim works from a plainspoken, nonjudgmental stance.
She listens first and then partners with each person to set clear, realistic goals.
Background and approach
That might mean practicing mindfulness to help with anxiety, mapping small behavioral steps for coping, or problem-solving around work and career concerns. Her background combines clinical and spiritual perspectives presented in a non-religious way. This allows space for values, meaning, and everyday coping strategies to come together.
She also attends to issues around identity, multicultural concerns, and experiences of prejudice and discrimination. Specific relationship topics she addresses include infidelity, jealousy, and non-monogamy conversations. She helps people weigh options, build communication plans, and regain trust in their choices.
When grief or major transitions arrive, she focuses on immediate coping and longer term adjustment. Sessions are offered in English and take place through online formats. Dr.
Hakim holds the listed credentials MD, LCPC, LPC and practices in Maryland. People who want to begin are invited to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Online approaches that focus on goals and presence
Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and understanding the person's perspective. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what is said, and helps the person name their goals and values. This is useful for people who want a respectful, collaborative space to talk through stress, identity concerns, or relationship questions.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention skills to reduce reactivity and ease anxiety. Exercises often include brief breathing practices or noticing sensations and thoughts in the moment to help people feel steadier during change or grief.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will review needs, goals, and preferences together and adjust methods over time. That might mean starting with mindful practices, then shifting to solution-focused steps for day-to-day problems, or blending elements from different approaches as progress unfolds.
Online formats make this work more flexible. Video calls enable face-to-face conversation for deeper reflection, phone sessions fit a tighter schedule or lower bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins and written exercises. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel routines while maintaining continuity of care.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 37 years
- Licensed
- Maryland, District of Columbia
- Languages
- English