Angela Hernandez, LCSW

Angela Hernandez is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 19 years of practice. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, addiction, trauma, and mood conditions such as bipolar disorder. Her work also includes LGBT-related issues and self-esteem and anger challenges.

She prefers a person-centered style that treats the client as the expert on their life. Sessions emphasize clear goals set together and practical steps toward those goals. Angela uses collaborative talk, problem-solving, and skills practice rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.

Her background includes broad experience across many clinical settings and client needs. She has worked with people facing trauma exposure and PTSD, mood fluctuations, substance concerns, and complex diagnoses. That range supports work with co-occurring issues and chronic health or caregiving stress.

Therapy draws on several approaches such as Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Existential and Narrative methods. These are mixed to fit the person and the problem, with attention to values, life meaning, and practical coping skills.

Angela also notes specific focus areas including aging and geriatric issues, caregiver stress, body image, attachment and dependent personality dynamics, and alternative sexual cultures such as BDSM and kink. Her approach aims to help people sort what matters most and build manageable steps toward change.

How Angela’s approaches work for online therapy

Angela integrates Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in a way that can work well through remote sessions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and supporting the person's own choices; it helps when someone needs a space to be heard and to build confidence in their decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and uses practical exercises and homework to change unhelpful patterns, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Angela will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best for their goals and preferences. That means trying techniques, reviewing what helps, and adjusting plans so sessions match a person’s needs and pace.

If you plan to use online therapy, confirm the current session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people use CBT exercises and DBT-style skills practice between sessions. Licensed professionals can support goal setting, coping skills, and emotional processing through remote sessions when the format suits the client.