About Angela
Angela "Angie" Hildebrand is a licensed counselor practicing in Montana with 14 years of experience. She holds the credential MT LCPC and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, and addiction. Angie aims to make the first step toward change feel less overwhelming and more doable.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about hard things. Sessions give room for emotions and practical problem solving.
Background and approach
Angie listens first, then helps clients decide what to try next. Her work combines straightforward strategies and reflective discussion. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. Mindfulness practices are used to reduce reactivity and bring attention to the present moment. Client-centered and psychodynamic ideas guide a deeper look at personal patterns and past influences.
Together these approaches help people cope with losses, relationship strain, and mood challenges. Angie also supports people navigating identity and life transitions, including LGBT concerns, adoption and foster care questions, aging issues, and caregiver stress. She works with clients facing ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, and issues like codependency or body image.
Conversations are practical and tailored. Angie helps clients set clear, achievable goals and checks progress each step of the way. She accepts appointments from people inside and outside the U.S. who want to work by phone, video, chat, or text-based messaging.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Angela blends practical skills training with reflective conversation to help people manage strong emotions and recurring problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting thoughts that lead to distress and testing new behaviors to change how a person feels. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related patterns.Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. Those skills can help during intense mood swings, conflict, or when emotions feel overwhelming. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental relationship where the client's priorities guide the work, helping people feel heard and understood.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they review what helps and adjust the plan over time so sessions stay relevant and practical.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when internet is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit short check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options offer flexibility for scheduling, reduce travel time, and let people keep consistent contact between appointments.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Montana
- Languages
- English