About Angela
Angela Dawn Foretich is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida. She brings 17 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and phobias. Her approach is warm and down-to-earth, aimed at giving practical help for hard moments.
She often meets people who are facing big life changes, loss, or a serious illness. Many clients want a clear sounding board, tools to cope, and steady support.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on identifying strengths and building new skills to handle current challenges. Her work draws on several evidence-based methods, including acceptance and commitment techniques, cognitive behavioral ideas, and emotion-focused strategies. She also uses attachment-based and client-centered ways of working to strengthen relationships and self-understanding.
In-session, that looks like listening closely, naming patterns, and practicing new ways of responding. Angela has experience supporting caregivers and people coping with chronic pain, blended family issues, grief, and first responder stress. She also addresses family of origin concerns, communication and control issues, codependency, and forgiveness.
Her background includes working with people facing co-morbidity and the complex needs that brings. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. Therapy can include short-term problem solving or longer-term support depending on the person’s goals.
She aims to treat everyone with respect, sensitivity, and compassion as they work toward more manageable days.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood. It often includes practical exercises to do between sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and can help people improve communication and emotional safety in relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, past attempts at help, and what feels most useful. Together they will choose or blend methods that fit the person's needs and preferences, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical options: video calls for deeper conversation and face-to-face interaction, phone sessions when bandwidth is low or a camera is not wanted, and live chat or text-based messaging for brief check-ins or notes between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, handle quick emotional needs, and keep continuity when schedules change. Licensed professionals can use these methods to provide steady support and skill practice over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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