Angel Damara, LCSW, LICSW

Angel Damara is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, grief, and midlife transitions. She has 17 years of experience in mental and behavioral health and has worked with people facing depression, addictions, bipolar disorder, and sleep problems. Angel also supports people coping with trauma, attachment concerns, and compassion fatigue. She trained in social work and completed a Master’s Degree in Social Work at Walla Walla University. Her background includes long-term work at the VA, where she supported Veterans with PTSD symptoms, insomnia and nightmares, chronic pain, and complex mental health needs. Those years shaped a practical, down-to-earth approach to difficult problems. Angel practices from a transpersonal perspective, which blends spiritual wisdom with conventional therapies. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy among other methods. Sessions tend to focus on building self-awareness, stronger relationships, and clearer personal values. In the room she emphasizes openness, honesty, and a non-judgmental attitude. She uses motivational interviewing and pain-focused CBT techniques when relevant. The aim is to work together on concrete skills and personal meaning rather than only talking about symptoms. People who choose Angel can expect straightforward conversation, practical tools, and attention to spiritual or existential concerns when wanted. She invites clients to begin where they are and to work toward clearer goals and more satisfying daily life.

How these approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It’s useful for anxiety, depression, midlife changes, and coping with chronic pain. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people notice and change unhelpful ways of relating to others. It can help with intimacy issues, abandonment concerns, and family-based patterns. Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will listen to goals, preferences, and everyday needs and then suggest methods to try. Together they’ll check what’s helpful and adjust the focus as work progresses. The biography does not specify session formats, so confirm current online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allowing shorter check-ins, sessions during a lunch break, or fewer travel disruptions. It also makes it simpler to access a clinician when juggling caregiving, work, or medical appointments. Practical benefits include keeping therapy consistent during life transitions and using tools and exercises between sessions to reinforce progress.