About Angela
Angela Kieler is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She writes plainly and listens closely to what matters most to each person. Her style aims to make therapy practical and understandable for busy lives.
She brings 18 years of experience across a range of settings, including work with special education, hospice care, and addiction treatment. That background shaped a comfort with complex situations and with family members trying to find help for a loved one.
Background and approach
She has also provided education through the National Alliance on Mental Illness and worked in acute community settings in Missouri. In sessions she combines several approaches to fit the person in front of her. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take small steps toward them.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and build different habits. She also draws on client-centered and attachment-based ideas to create a respectful, steady therapeutic relationship. Practical tools and creative options are part of her toolbox.
She has experience using art therapy techniques and can adapt activities for different ages and needs. She can also support people dealing with grief, trauma, addiction, parenting stress, ADHD, career concerns, and many life transitions. Clients who choose her can expect straightforward language, a paced plan, and a focus on what they want to change.
She works with people in Missouri and accepts international clients for remote sessions when appropriate.
Approaches that guide online work
Angela commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people name their values and take small, consistent steps toward them. ACT focuses on what matters to the person and on actions that match those values, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT breaks problems into manageable parts and teaches concrete skills for changing patterns that keep someone stuck. Additionally, elements of client-centered and attachment-based approaches shape how she builds trust and supports emotional safety in sessions.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what fits the client's needs and preferences. This collaborative process helps decide whether to emphasize ACT, CBT, creative methods, or another blend.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual aids, while phone calls can fit into a work break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English