About Angel
Angel Ouza is a licensed clinical social worker in California who helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, grief, and challenges from trauma and life transitions. She brings 19 years of social work experience and aims to create a compassionate, nonjudgmental space for people to begin healing. Angel uses a flexible, person-focused style that adapts to what each person needs.
She listens first and offers practical tools, coaching, and homework when helpful.
Background and approach
Her approach blends talk therapy with skills practice to manage symptoms and build coping habits. She commonly addresses relationship strain, compassion fatigue, career shifts, and decision points that leave people feeling stuck. Angel also works with concerns like abandonment, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, codependency, and eating-related difficulties.
Her clinical toolkit includes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy. She aims to match strategies to the person’s goals and pace rather than following a single method. Sessions may include direct coaching, guided exercises, and gentle challenge to shift unhelpful patterns.
Angel notes she offers voice-only sessions when requested. She draws on nearly two decades of experience to help people build skills they can use between sessions and move toward more balanced daily life.
Therapeutic approaches you can try online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and values, then taking action that lines up with what matters. It can help with anxiety, stress, and feeling stuck by teaching practical ways to move toward meaningful goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses simple exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It is often helpful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist follows the person’s lead and helps them find their own solutions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Angel will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try methods that fit. She adapts techniques over time and collaborates on what feels most useful rather than insisting on one way of working.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are options for shorter questions, ongoing coaching, or when written reflection feels easier. These options add flexibility so therapy can fit into a busy life.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- California, Michigan
- Languages
- English
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