Angela Schardein, LCSW

Angela Schardein is a licensed clinical social worker with 22 years of experience. She helps people dealing with trauma, abuse, and grief, and supports those facing parenting challenges or low self-esteem. She also assists people who are navigating major life changes and looking to rebuild confidence.

She focuses on creating an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about what matters to them. Conversations are paced to the person’s needs, with attention to safety and emotional grounding. Angela aims to help people make small changes that feel doable in daily life.

Her background includes long-term clinical work in Kentucky across a range of concerns. That experience informs practical ways to cope with loss, process difficult memories, and manage day-to-day stressors. She brings steady support when grief or past wounds make it hard to move forward.

Angela also works with people connected to adoption and foster care, autism and Asperger syndrome, caregiver stress, and aging and geriatric issues. She offers help around communication problems, guilt and shame, and finding life purpose as circumstances shift.

Sessions typically begin by identifying what the client most needs to address and then trying realistic steps toward those goals. Angela encourages ongoing feedback so therapy stays aligned with the person’s priorities. Taking that first step to begin therapy is recognized as a meaningful act, and the work moves at the client’s pace.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Angela’s listed clinical approaches reference evidence-based therapeutic techniques. One common method focuses on working through traumatic memories in small, manageable steps so memories feel less overwhelming and everyday functioning improves. Another approach centers on grief work - naming losses, tracking how grief shows up day to day, and finding ways to honor what was lost while moving forward. These styles are practical and aimed at helping with clear problems like sleeplessness, avoidance, or difficulty parenting after loss.

Finding the right way to work together is part of therapy. The therapist will collaborate with clients to identify which methods seem most helpful based on needs, goals, and personal preferences. That might mean combining techniques or adjusting the pace depending on how someone responds.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by removing travel time and letting people meet from different locations. It can also allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, or reduce the need to be on camera if someone prefers phone conversations. Licensed professionals can adapt techniques to work across different formats while focusing on practical coping and problem solving.