About Angela
Angela Freed is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and low self-esteem. She supports those facing life changes, relationship concerns, intimacy-related issues, and parenting stress. Her approach is grounded and compassionate, aimed at practical steps people can use between sessions.
She draws on 14 years of clinical experience across a range of settings. That experience includes helping people cope with trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, depression, and anger.
Background and approach
Angela also addresses issues linked to identity and gender, including LGBT concerns and gender dysphoria, and works with body image, cancer-related stress, and caregiving burdens. Sessions focus on clear, individual plans rather than one-size-fits-all answers. Conversations are tailored to each person’s needs and rhythms.
Angela emphasizes respect and sensitivity while helping clients develop useful coping strategies and build confidence. She pays attention to family of origin issues, communication problems, control struggles, and the effects of divorce or separation. She also helps people who feel empty, isolated, or unsure about life purpose to reconnect with meaning and direction.
People can expect collaboration about goals and steps to try between sessions. Angela aims to empower clients to make changes at a pace that fits their lives. Her practice in Pennsylvania includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to support different needs.
Approaches that guide online work
Angela uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques aimed at solving immediate problems and building long-term coping skills. One common approach focuses on practical coping strategies that teach skills for managing anxiety and stress, such as breathing, activity planning, and breaking tasks into smaller steps. Another approach targets grief and life transitions by helping people make meaning of loss and plan healthy routines to move forward.Finding the right method is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then try approaches that fit those needs. Together they will review what helps and adjust the plan over time so the work stays relevant and useful.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is helpful for deeper conversations and reading nonverbal cues, while phone work can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging make it simple to check in between sessions or fit brief updates into a busy day. These options help people get consistent support without rearranging their whole schedule.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English