Angela Mendez

Feeling like you always have to be the one who figures things out, keeps everything together, and carries it all so everyone around you can be okay is exhausting. And if it's gotten to the point where saying the quiet part out loud feels challenging, I may be a great fit for you. My work as a Licensed Professional Counselor with over 10 years of experience has centered on helping young adults and adults navigate challenges related to anxiety, depression, burnout, relationship and family stress, and life transitions. I offer therapy in English y en Español and warmly welcome clients who want culture, family, and identity to have a place in the therapy room.

My style of therapy is warm, practical and collaborative. With me you'll find a great listener but also someone that will ask questions to help you look beneath the surface, support you in connecting the dots to build awareness, and teach tools you can use outside of therapy sessions. Depending on your concerns and needs, I will draw from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), mindfulness-based approaches, and motivational interviewing.

We'll start with what brought you to therapy and what has been feeling heavy and difficult to manage lately. I'll ask questions to not only understand specifics about what is going on in life now, but also to help me understand your history and things from the past that may be impacting the present. We'll also talk about different parts of life like your responsibilities, relationships, stressors, strengths and hopes for what you most want to be different moving forward, which sometimes is not always very clear the first time but that's okay because we can figure it out together.