- Years in practice
- 17
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Parenting issues
- Focus
- Self esteem
About Angelica
Angelica Ventresca is a Florida-based licensed clinical social worker with 17 years of practice. She focuses on helping adults manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the strain of parenting. Her work emphasizes clear, practical steps that people can use right away.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness, and client-centered ways of working to tailor sessions to each person. Sessions often include talking through challenges, learning simple coping skills, and practicing new ways of responding to stress.
Background and approach
She also brings Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy tools when they fit the situation. Angelica centers each session on respect and real-life needs. She helps people build self-esteem, repair communication patterns, and manage panic or social anxiety.
For those juggling caregiving or workplace strain, she offers strategies to reduce burnout and restore energy. Her approach is collaborative and paced to the client. She listens for values and goals, then designs small experiments to try between meetings.
Faith-based support is available for clients who want it integrated into their work. Sessions can mix skills practice, reflective conversation, and short-term coaching to meet practical goals. Angelica aims to help clients reconnect with inner strengths and find clearer direction through life changes.
She practices across Florida and conducts sessions in English.
What Angelica works with
Everything Angelica lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Angelica helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Approaches Angelica lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters to each person. It emphasizes empathy, validation, and helping clients discover their own solutions, which can be helpful when navigating parenting stress or life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Sessions often include practical skill-building to reduce anxiety, manage panic attacks, and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication. These tools can help with impulsivity, relationship struggles, and managing intense emotion in everyday situations.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide whether to focus on skill practice, reflective work, or a mix of both, and can adjust the plan as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging fits quick check-ins or ongoing coaching. These options help people fit sessions into busy parenting schedules and varied routines.
Questions people ask about Angelica
What concerns does Angelica commonly help with?
She works with adults on stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, relationship strain, trauma and related issues like abandonment and attachment questions.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is collaborative and practical. Sessions combine listening, skill teaching, and simple exercises to try between meetings.
What background does she bring to sessions?
Angelica has 17 years of clinical experience and focuses on building self-esteem, communication, and coping strategies for life transitions and caregiver stress.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, practicing in Florida.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Are international clients accepted?
International clients are not currently accepted.
What formats are available for meeting online?
Sessions can be conducted by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does the subscription and scheduling work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time; to start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to availability.
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