Angel Damara
Practical therapy for parenting and life challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW, LICSW
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed in
- Oregon, Washington
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Angel
Angel Damara is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, parenting strain, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, and relationship challenges. She draws on 17 years of experience in mental and behavioral health and brings practical, down-to-earth support to each session. Angel works with issues like grief, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, and coping with life changes.
She also addresses concerns related to ADHD, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Angel earned a Master of Social Work at Walla Walla University and holds LCSW and LICSW credentials. Much of her recent work was at the VA, where she supported people living with PTSD symptoms, insomnia and nightmares, chronic pain, anxiety, depression, addictions, and other mental health challenges. That experience informs a pragmatic approach to symptom management and daily functioning.
She blends evidence-based methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy with attachment-focused ideas and a client-centered stance. Sessions emphasize skill building, clearer communication, and realistic goals. Angel explains tools plainly and practices them together with the person in session.
Her style is direct but compassionate. She encourages self-awareness, open-mindedness, and honest conversation. Therapy is treated as a collaborative process where the person sets goals and learns practical steps toward them.
People seeking support for parenting concerns, blended family stress, adoption and foster care topics, aging and caregiver strain, or complicated medical and chronic pain situations may find this approach useful. Angel concentrates on helping each person improve relationships, daily coping, and overall meaning in life.
Evidence-based approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take steps that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety, insomnia, and low mood. It often includes specific exercises and homework to practice between sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build more stable connections and improve communication.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapeutic work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options let people fit sessions into busy family schedules, continue care while traveling, or use shorter check-ins between longer appointments. Licensed professionals can guide skills practice, coach through stressful moments, and support goal setting using the format that fits each person's life.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- 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
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Oregon, Washington
- Languages
- English
Next step
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