About Angela
Angela Mendiola is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who brings calm, straightforward support to people feeling overwhelmed. She welcomes questions about stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, addictions, career concerns, and ADHD-related challenges. Her tone is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at parents and adults searching for clear help.
Angela favors simple goal-setting and skills people can use right away. She helps clients name priorities, try small strategies, and track what works.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on real problems and realistic steps rather than jargon or long plans. She trained in Honolulu and holds a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology from Chaminade University of Honolulu. Angela has about ten years of experience in counseling settings that included schools and community programs.
That background shaped her interest in supporting people through life changes and loss. Her work blends listening with evidence-informed methods like cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness. She also draws from client-centered and motivational approaches to keep sessions collaborative and practical.
For relationship concerns she uses elements of the Gottman Method to improve communication and mutual understanding. Clients can expect a calm conversational style that balances reflection with actionable tools. Angela offers resources such as short readings and exercises to reinforce session work.
She aims to make therapy a regular practice people can carry into daily life.
How Angela’s Approaches Work Online
Angela uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes. CBT is practical and often focuses on what to try between sessions to ease anxiety or lift mood.She also draws on client-centered therapy, which centers the conversation on the person in front of her. That means listening closely, reflecting what’s important, and letting the client guide priorities while the therapist offers support and options.
Finding the right approach happens together. Angela will discuss preferences, goals, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. From there she suggests methods to try and adjusts the plan as progress unfolds, keeping decisions collaborative.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper dialogue, phone sessions can fit brief check-ins or low-bandwidth needs, and chat or text is handy for short updates or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy days and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Guilt and shame
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English
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