- Years in practice
- 6
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- LGBT
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Angelamaria
Angelamaria Riedi is a New York licensed clinical social worker with six years of experience. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, parenting challenges, and stress. She is LGBTQ+ friendly and works with people from diverse cultural backgrounds.
She uses a nonjudgmental, strengths-based style. Sessions focus on identifying what is working for a person and building on those abilities. That practical focus aims to increase self-awareness and help clients make small, steady changes.
Background and approach
Angelamaria has experience helping adults across the lifespan, including seniors and people managing the changes that come with aging. She has supported people dealing with trauma, substance use concerns, and career stress. Her background includes crisis and trauma work alongside everyday life challenges.
In sessions she listens first and then offers tools that match each person’s situation. Tools may include coping strategies for panic or low mood, communication skills for relationship strain, or planning steps for recovery from addiction. She keeps explanations simple and concrete.
Therapy sessions move at the client’s pace. The goal is practical progress rather than labels or tests. Angelamaria encourages clients to notice strengths they already have and use those strengths to support change.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Sessions follow a collaborative approach where the client’s goals guide the work together.
What Angelamaria works with
Everything Angelamaria lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Angelamaria helps people with.
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- HIV / AIDS
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Angelamaria typically uses practical, evidence-informed approaches that focus on strengths and coping skills. One common approach she uses helps people identify existing strengths and apply them to current problems, boosting confidence and promoting steady change. This approach works well for depression, low self-esteem, and life transitions.She also draws on trauma-informed practices that prioritize safety and pacing. These techniques help people who have experienced abuse, dissociation, or other trauma-related reactions by breaking work into manageable steps and building skills to tolerate difficult memories or feelings.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client review goals and preferences, try methods that fit the client’s needs, and adjust as progress is observed. Clients are invited to give feedback so the plan evolves together.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls support face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows shorter check-ins, and messaging works for ongoing, brief updates between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules.
Questions people ask about Angelamaria
What concerns does she address?
She supports people with anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, grief, parenting strain, relationship and intimacy issues, and related stressors.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is nonjudgmental and strengths-based. She listens first, then works with each person to build on what already helps them.
What experience does she bring?
She has six years of practice as a licensed social worker and has worked with adults across the lifespan, including seniors and people coping with crisis and trauma.
Where is she licensed and practicing?
She is a New York licensed clinical social worker, credentialed as LCSW, and listed as based in New York.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people from other countries work together with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats does she use and how are costs handled?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time and cost varies with location and therapist availability.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.
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