Angela Dawn Foretich
Experienced counselor focused on practical support
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Angela
Angela Dawn Foretich is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida. She brings 17 years of experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, grief, or major life changes. She began practicing counseling and art therapy in 2007 and focuses on practical support and steady guidance.
She works with people coping with trauma, phobias, chronic illness, and caregiving strain. Many clients seek a sounding board and help building skills they can use right away.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize recognizing strengths and growing new coping tools. Her approach draws from several therapy methods so she can match techniques to each person’s needs. That might mean learning strategies to manage strong emotions or practicing different ways to communicate.
The goal is usable skills and clearer next steps, not just talk. Angela values respect, sensitivity, and compassion in the therapy room. She supports clients through grief, family tensions, relationship struggles, and caregiver stress.
Her work also addresses blended family challenges, aging and geriatric issues, and recovery after disasters. She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. Angela uses evidence-based methods to help people handle life changes, improve communication, and reduce distress.
If someone is looking for calm, steady support and practical tools, she provides a straightforward, caring approach.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy teaches people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take actions that align with their values; it can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, offering concrete tools to manage mood and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Angela will discuss goals and preferences and then try methods that fit the person sitting across from the screen. That collaborative process helps tailor the mix of techniques used over time so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions provide flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to connect from different locations and to fit therapy into a busy schedule. The variety of formats also allows people to use the way of communicating that feels most comfortable while still receiving consistent therapeutic support.
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
- Grief
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- 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
Next step
Talk to Angela
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point