Angel Ouza
Compassionate social worker guiding practical change
- Credentials
- LMSW, LCSW
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed in
- California, Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Angel
Angel Ouza welcomes people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, low self esteem, grief, depression, and the strain of life changes. She is also experienced with relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, career questions, compassion fatigue, and coaching for change.
Angel practices in California and brings 19 years of social work experience to her work as an LMSW and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW. Her style is warm and direct.
Background and approach
She creates a space where someone can share hard feelings and get practical steps to move forward. Sessions mix listening with coaching, homework, and tools chosen for what the person needs that week. Angel names mindset, trauma, self esteem, anxiety, and transitions as her main areas of focus.
Angel uses a blend of methods rather than one fixed formula. She draws on cognitive behavioral strategies and acceptance-based work to shift unhelpful thoughts and build values-driven action. She also uses client-centered practices to follow a person’s pace and emotion-focused techniques to repair connection and process difficult feelings.
She has additional training in trauma-focused approaches and sometimes uses eye movement desensitization and reprocessing tools for processing painful memories. Angel pairs therapeutic techniques with coaching and practical suggestions that fit daily life. People who choose Angel can expect a collaborative relationship.
She encourages small, consistent steps and helps set realistic goals. Her approach emphasizes acceptance, practical skills, and steady progress toward clearer priorities and better coping.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that match those values, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is helpful for worry, low mood, and stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, centers on understanding strong emotions and how they shape relationships; it is useful for improving emotional connection and processing intense feelings.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels useful. Together they decide whether ACT, CBT, EFT, or a mix is the best fit and adjust that plan as therapy progresses.
Online sessions offer flexibility and different ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions remove the need for a camera, and live chat or text messaging can provide brief check-ins or support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain consistency while working on goals.
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.
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.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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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