- Years in practice
- 15
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- Parenting issues
About Angela
Angela DaSilva is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and parenting challenges. She offers a calm, straightforward approach that focuses on practical steps and real-life solutions. Her tone is collaborative and nonjudgmental, aimed at parents who need clear tools and steady support.
Angela centers sessions on the issues that matter most to each person. She helps clients break problems into manageable parts and build everyday coping strategies.
Background and approach
Conversations are goal-focused and concrete so parents can try things between sessions and notice what changes. Her practice draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide interventions. That means she uses methods shown to help with mood, worry, and self-regulation while adapting them to each person's situation.
Angela pays attention to strengths and patterns that keep problems stuck, then offers ways to shift them. She emphasizes collaboration - clients and therapist set priorities together. Angela also supports people through the ups and downs of behavior change, offering practical suggestions when progress stalls.
Her work is direct but compassionate, aimed at steady improvement over time. Based in New York, Angela provides support to English-speaking clients who want an approach rooted in real-world tools and steady guidance. She aims to help parents move from feeling overwhelmed to feeling more in control of daily challenges.
What Angela works with
Everything Angela lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Angela helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Depression
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online sessions
Angela uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common method helps people learn new coping skills for anxiety and stress by practicing small, manageable exercises that reduce worry and increase calm. Another approach targets patterns that maintain depression and anger by identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying alternative responses to test what works in daily life.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Angela works with each person to identify goals, preferences, and what feels doable. Together they try strategies, track what helps, and adjust the plan so therapy fits the client’s life and needs.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when a brief check-in fits a work break. Live chat and text messaging offer short, ongoing support between sessions and a way to check in without scheduling a full call. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy parenting schedule while keeping the focus on progress and practical tools.
Questions people ask about Angela
What concerns does Angela commonly address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, addictions, and parenting-related struggles.
What is her general approach in sessions?
Sessions focus on practical, evidence-based techniques and collaborative problem solving. The work emphasizes clear steps people can try between meetings.
How much experience does she have?
Angela has 15 years of experience working with individuals on emotional and behavioral concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW - licensed in New York and practices from that state.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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