Clara Angulo, LCSW
Bilingual LCSW helping people reshape their stories
Details
| Name | Clara Angulo |
|---|---|
| Credentials | LCSW |
| Based in | Florida |
| Licensed in | Florida |
| Session format | Online |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Years in practice | 10 |
About Clara
Clara Angulo is a bilingual Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in Florida. She brings ten years of experience supporting people through hard changes and emotional pain. Clara speaks both English and Spanish and aims to make sessions feel direct and understandable.
She focuses on everyday problems like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, low self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Clara also helps with relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, eating and sleeping concerns, and work-related stress.
Background and approach
She lists support for LGBT concerns, ADHD, bipolar symptoms, and compassion fatigue among her areas of focus. Clara uses practical, conversational methods in sessions. She draws on Narrative approaches to help people reframe their stories and on Cognitive Behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy tools are used to build values-driven action and manage painful feelings. In sessions she offers a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through what matters most. She aims to clarify goals and try small, doable steps between meetings.
Clara works collaboratively and adjusts her style to each person’s pace and needs. Her clinical background includes work across diverse communities in South Florida. She combines several evidence-informed methods to tailor care.
People who want straightforward, bilingual support for both immediate coping and longer-term change often find her approach helpful.
What this therapist works with
Her listing names Stress, Anxiety, Grief, Self esteem among the things Clara works with, alongside the areas below.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
Approaches listed
- Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Listed by Clara among the ways she works.
- Attachment-Based Therapy: Listed by Clara among the ways she works.
- Client-Centered Therapy: Listed by Clara among the ways she works.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Listed by Clara among the ways she works.
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Listed by Clara among the ways she works.
- Existential Therapy: Listed by Clara among the ways she works.
- Gottman Method: Listed by Clara among the ways she works.
- Hypnotherapy: Listed by Clara among the ways she works.
- Mindfulness Therapy: Listed by Clara among the ways she works.
- Motivational Interviewing: Listed by Clara among the ways she works.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: Listed by Clara among the ways she works.
- Internal Family Systems: Listed by Clara among the ways she works.
- Training stated: This directory copies the approaches a therapist names and does not check training records. Ask Clara directly how much of the work is narrative and what a session usually looks like.
Narrative Therapy in this listing
Narrative Therapy appears in this therapist's own list of approaches. That tells you it is part of how she works. It does not tell you how much of a session it shapes, and this directory does not check or rate training.
If a narrative approach is what you are looking for, it is worth asking Clara directly how she uses it and what a session usually looks like.
Online session options
How Clara’s Approaches Work Online
Clara commonly uses Narrative Therapy to help people tell and reshape the stories that shape their lives. This approach looks at patterns in someone’s life story and finds different ways to describe challenges so new choices feel possible.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on identifying values and taking small actions even when emotions are uncomfortable. ACT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life transitions.
The right approach often becomes clear through conversation. Clara works with clients to pick methods that match their goals and comfort level, and she adjusts techniques as needed. That decision is collaborative and based on the person’s needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy fit daily life. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat and texting suit quick check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options help people schedule sessions around work, family, or other commitments while keeping continuity of care.
Common questions about this listing
What concerns does Clara often address?
Clara works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. She also lists relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD, bipolar, and compassion fatigue.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is conversational and collaborative. She mixes narrative work with cognitive-behavioral and acceptance-based strategies to help people reframe stories and try practical behavior changes.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has ten years of professional experience providing clinical care in Florida. That background includes work in diverse communities across South Florida.
What credentials and location should I know about?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, licensed in Florida. Her practice is based in the state of Florida.
Can sessions be conducted in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
What formats are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How are fees and payments handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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