About Angela
Angela Dawn Foretich offers practical, person-focused therapy rooted in approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor - LMHC practicing in Florida who draws on 17 years of experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and bipolar challenges.
Her manner is direct and compassionate, and she aims to be a steady presence for people facing change. Her work often centers on day-to-day coping and clear steps that make life feel more manageable.
Background and approach
She helps clients notice helpful patterns, practice new skills, and build on strengths they already have. Sessions move at a pace set by the client and focus on what matters most right now. Angela has supported people dealing with trauma and abuse, chronic illness and pain, caregiver strain, and compassion fatigue.
She also addresses relationship and family-of-origin issues, communication struggles, anger, self-esteem, and major life transitions such as divorce and blended family concerns. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, attachment-based work, and client-centered approaches depending on the person's needs.
These methods are combined to solve specific problems and teach practical skills for coping and emotional regulation. People can expect straightforward guidance, gentle challenge, and support while they try new ways of coping. Angela aims to help clients leave sessions with small, doable steps to practice between meetings.
Her style is respectful, calm, and focused on real-world change.
Online approaches that teach coping and connection
Angela commonly integrates acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy when working online. Acceptance and commitment therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then choose actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, grief, and life transitions. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behaviors with practical exercises, which often helps with depression, anxiety, and stress.Picking the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, preferences, and day-to-day challenges, and together they will try methods that fit. Sessions are collaborative, and adjustments are made based on what helps the person make progress.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging offer quick check-ins, shorter touchpoints, and flexibility around work or caregiving schedules. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using approaches that focus on skills, values, and problem solving.
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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