Angela Whitecrane Widdicombe
Calm, experienced listener for family concerns
- Credentials
- LCSW, LMFT
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Montana
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Angela
Angela Whitecrane Widdicombe is a licensed clinical social worker and a licensed marriage and family therapist based in Montana. She brings 30 years of experience to work with concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, and coping with life changes. Her approach emphasizes building strong connection and clear communication so people feel heard.
She invites a calm, straightforward conversation to help parents and individuals find manageable steps forward.
Background and approach
Her sessions focus on practical tools and steady presence rather than labels. She uses methods like cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thinking, acceptance and commitment therapy to clarify values, and attachment-based ideas to improve trust and closeness. Emotionally-focused and client-centered work shape how she pays attention to feelings and personal goals.
Over three decades she has worked in clinical settings that included services for foster children, veterans experiencing homelessness, and addiction clinics. That background informs a practical, experienced stance in sessions and an understanding of how stress, trauma, poverty, and substance use can affect family life. Her style is warm and listening-first.
She helps parents and adults talk through what matters, set small goals, and practice new ways of relating. Conversations are aimed at clearer communication, healthier boundaries, and steps that fit daily life. Angela holds the credential LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and LMFT, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.
She offers services in English and is based in Montana.
Therapeutic tools for families and individuals online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts without being controlled by them and identify values to guide action. This approach is useful for stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape trust and closeness and can help with intimacy-related issues and communication problems.Choosing the right approach usually happens together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try approaches that fit those goals, and adjust as needed. This collaborative process aims to find practical steps that feel right for each person and family situation.
Online sessions let therapy fit into busy family life. Video calls and phone sessions allow face-to-face conversation when meeting in person is hard. Live chat and text-based messaging offer shorter check-ins and written support between sessions. These options provide flexibility so parents and adults can access licensed professionals from home or on the go, while keeping the focus on steady progress and useful skills.
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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Montana
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Angela
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point