Angela Hernandez , LCSW

Angela Hernandez is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 19 years of clinical experience who centers her practice on each client’s goals and strengths. She adopts a person-centered stance, partnering with individuals to set objectives that reflect their values and priorities while drawing on systemic perspectives to address how relationships and environments influence well-being. Angela has worked across individual, couples, family, and group formats, helping clients navigate trauma exposure and PTSD, mood fluctuations, depression, anxiety, and the stresses of life transitions.

Her practice is informed by extensive experience with LGBTQ+ clients, veterans, BIPOC communities, and people facing domestic violence, dual diagnosis, substance use concerns, personality disorders, and dissociative conditions. She provides services for clients age 16 and above and brings sensitivity to cultural and stage-of-life differences in care. Angela integrates a range of therapeutic tools to fit each person’s needs, including narrative techniques, trauma-focused cognitive behavioral strategies, trauma and ecogram mapping, experiential and art-based interventions, solution-focused methods, motivational interviewing, family systems work, and object relations perspectives.

Known for affirming clients as the experts of their own stories, Angela emphasizes practical strengths, collaborative goal-setting, and helping people heal from the past while building healthier relationships and realistic plans for the future.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Angela brings client-centered therapy to online work by emphasizing the person's own values and goals; this approach focuses on listening, empathy, and building a collaborative relationship to guide change and recovery. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety, depression, and patterns that interfere with daily functioning. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, supporting clients who struggle with intense emotions or relationship challenges.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Angela works with each person to explore which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting strategies over time so therapy stays practical and relevant. Licensed professionals and therapists tailor interventions rather than applying a one-size-fits-all model.

Online therapy offers flexibility in how people engage in care. Video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging allow sessions to fit into busy schedules, reduce travel barriers, and provide multiple ways to communicate. For many clients, these options make consistent work with a therapist more accessible and easier to maintain alongside daily responsibilities.