A LITTLE ABOUT ME
Biography
Angela is a Registered Psychotherapist with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (Registration # 10410).
Over the past 9+ years, Angela has worked with clients in a variety of treatment settings including hospital and community mental health. Angela has worked primarily with adults, and has supported those who've experienced, anxiety, depression, substance use, and more.
ABOUT MY APPROACH
Meet Angela (she/her)
Angela's draws from Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy. This is an approach that focuses on healing from past emotional wounds, self-growth, and creating a sense of secure relationship within yourself and with others.
Angela also practices Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. This is an approach that focuses on accepting what is out of your personal control, learning skills to handle difficult thoughts and feelings more effectively, and taking actions that align with your values and what matters to you most.
Angela has experience and has also practiced:
Solution Focused Therapy - a short-term, goal-oriented approach that focuses on exploring and building upon your strengths and resources to find solutions to the issues you share;
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - a short-term, goal-oriented approach that focuses on the intertwining relationship between thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, how certain ways of thinking and behaviour may reinforce issues in your life, and learning ways to evaluate thinking and change behaviour to feel better;
Motivational Interviewing - an approach that may help increase motivation to work towards changes you want to make in your life - such as creating a therapeutic space where you don’t feel judged so that you may be able to share openly and authentically, or reflecting on your values to help highlight and reinforce why it is important to you to work towards making change.
Angela may use a combination of evidenced-based approaches to create a treatment plan that best suits the unique needs and goals of her clients.
INTERESTED?
Clinical Areas of Practice
Angela has a particular interest in helping young adult women (ages 18-30s) who struggle with feeling secure in themselves, as well as who may deal with self-worth issues, perfectionism, people pleasing, and self-criticism. She is keen on helping navigate difficult inner experiences, unhelpful beliefs about the self, and change. Angela works with adults (18+) who reside in Ontario regarding issues of:
-Anxiety
-Self-Criticism
-Self-Worth
-Perfectionism
-People Pleasing
-Depression
-Impacts of Trauma
Education and Specialized Training
Master of Arts Degree in Counselling Psychology - Yorkville University
Post-Graduate Certificate in Addictions and Mental Health - Durham College
Mastering Skills and Overcoming Challenges in EFIT:A Consultation Process - International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy
Emotionally Focused Therapy Training - EFIT Essentials - Drs. Sue Johnson and Leanne Campbell, International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy
Moving From Self-Criticism to Self-Acceptance with Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy - Robin Williams Blake
EFT: Attachment Science in Practice - Dr. Sue Johnson
ACT for Perfectionism and People Pleasing - Dr. Russ Harris
ACT for Grief and Loss - Dr. Russ Harris
Trauma-Informed ACT Workshop - Leah Jeffrey
ACTing, Grooving, and Shaking in Groups - Anathele Zamor
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): The Model, the Practice, the Application - Margaret Notar
Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for Depressive Disorders - University of Toronto - Faculty of Medicine - Continuing Professional Development
Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for Anxiety and Related Disorders 1 - University of Toronto - Faculty of Medicine - Continuing Professional Development
Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for Anxiety and Related Disorders 2 - University of Toronto - Faculty of Medicine - Continuing Professional Development
Land Acknowledgment
We respectfully acknowledge we are situated on the traditional territory of the Anishnaabeg, specifically the Chippewas of Rama First Nation, a member of the Chippewa Tri-Council and Three Fires Confederacy, and that it continues to be home to many diverse First Nations, Metis and Inuit Peoples.
We honour and value the significant historical and contemporary contributions of Indigenous Peoples to the area, and we hope to move forward in the spirit of reconciliation and respect.