Mental Health & Family Counselor in North Carolina

Angela has over 20 years of therapy experience helping those that have experienced trauma and addiction. She works with most mental health struggles and has found that trauma and addiction often accompany depression and anxiety. Angela is trained in several therapy techniques so that if trauma and/or addiction arise, she can therapeutically help individuals cope using the expressive art therapies.

Angela has extensive experience working with children and families. Angela provides therapy and counseling to children, teens, adults, and families.

She is one of a few therapy practitioners specializing in therapy work with young children (ages 2-6) that have experienced trauma and abuse specificaly those that have experienced sexual and physical abuse and domestic violence as well as helping those struggling with addiction.

• Therapy for substance abuse and addiction
• Therapy to help with coping from stress and depression
• Therapy to assist with stress in the family
• Therapy to address anger problems
• Therapy to change behavioral problems at home and school
• Therapy to help children when they are "acting out"
• Therapy to help adults and families cope with children "acting out"
• Therapy to assist in coping with trauma associated with divorce or family adjustments
• Therapy to address eating disorders
• Therapy to work with developmental and physical limitations
• Therapy to improve attachment problems
• Therapy to assist in coping with new situations and change

Angela uses dance therapy and drama therapy in all her work. In each therapy session individuals "move" instead of “sit,” giving the individual the chance to express feelings and emotions with their body. Goals in therapy are tailored to each individual and include the opportunity to use dance therapy, drama therapy, addiction counseling, trauma work, and verbal therapy to help children, teens, adults, and families to foster increased body awareness and sense of self. Through the therapy experience, individuals experience emotional healing of trauma and daily struggles.

Greensboro Dance & Drama Therapy will be using Zoom as the video platform.  Greensboro Dance & Drama Therapy is taking the following steps to insure your privacy with Zoom:

• All recording of sessions is disabled.
• No one will be allowed to join before the host; instead, there will be a "waiting room."
• Only authenticated users can join meetings.
• A new and different password will be required for each meeting.
• Encryption for 3rd Party Endpoints (H323/SIP) will be used.
• With each session, Greensboro Dance and Drama Therapy will need to verify your location (you can say "at home") and your identification (this can be done with allowing video). Telephone will be used as a backup if internet or device fails. In group sessions if internet or device issues arise you will be expected to leave the group and return when and if you are available. Angela or an assistant will follow up with you to provide support.
• You are expected to:
• Be in a confidential location (this is esp. important for groups).
• You are encouraged to use ear buds if you are not the only person at home but are the only one in the session. In this case it is recommended that you be in a separate room or space where no one else can hear you.
• Be in still location (not in a car, walking, etc.).
• Be fully clothed (PJs are allowed).
• Have appropriate participation; not engaging in distracting behaviors (jumping on the bed, eating, crafting, using your computer during the session(s), etc.). Pets and young children are allowed to "crash" sessions.
• For groups if there are multiple people at the same home in the group, each person needs to be on their own device. Family sessions can be on one shared device.