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Angelica Ventresca, LCSW
Florida
Florida LCSW - Anxiety and Relationships
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- Communication skills
- Caregiver support
About Angelica
Angelica Ventresca is a Florida-licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 17 years of experience helping adults manage stress, anxiety, depression, and major life transitions. She focuses on practical skills like communication, self-esteem work, and managing social anxiety. Sessions may include faith-based support when desired.
She uses a mix of straightforward therapies to help people notice patterns and try new responses. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) appears in her approach and is used alongside client-centered methods, DBT skills, emotion-focused work, and mindfulness strategies. She aims to teach tools people can use between sessions.
Angelica often helps people dealing with relationship strain, intimacy-related concerns, caregiver stress, and workplace issues. She also addresses trauma and abuse, attachment and abandonment concerns, panic attacks, and feelings of isolation. Practical problem solving and skills practice are common features of her work.
Sessions tend to focus on breaking unhelpful cycles - thoughts, feelings, and reactions - and testing small changes. Techniques may include thought records, behavioral experiments, emotion regulation skills, and mindful attention to present-moment experience. Progress is reviewed in concrete terms.
Her practice supports people exploring life purpose, coping with guilt or shame, and navigating divorce or separation. People can expect a collaborative process that balances short-term coping strategies with deeper emotional work. The emphasis is on clear steps and measurable change.
How Angelica Uses Structured Therapies Online
Angelica works with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test different behaviors. CBT sessions focus on concrete exercises like tracking thoughts, planning behavioral experiments, and practicing new responses for anxiety or depression.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers conversations on the person’s priorities and pacing. That approach emphasizes listening, clarifying goals, and adjusting the work to what feels most relevant to the client.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Angelica collaborates with people to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts methods if something isn’t working.
Confirm the current session formats before booking, since the biography doesn’t specify formats here. Online sessions can make regular check-ins easier to fit into a week, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter focused meetings when schedules are tight. They can also let people practice skills in everyday settings and then discuss what happened in the next session.
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Experience
17+ years
Listed in
Florida
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with most often?
She helps adults with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, and life transitions.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She uses practical, skills-based approaches that focus on noticing thoughts and trying new responses, drawing on CBT, DBT skills, mindfulness, and emotion-focused work.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 17 years of experience as a practicing clinician.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is an LCSW licensed in Florida and practices with that credential.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does she work with international clients?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are costs handled for sessions?
Cost varies by location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What do I need to do to start?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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