Angela Brooks-Livingston (she/her) is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Supervisor and a Licensed Clinical Addictions Specialist in Wilkes County, NC. Angela offers telehealth therapy sessions to individuals, and couples who are seeking to have a life worth living. Clients comes to therapy with Angela to work on their identity, relationships, distress, depression, life transitions, and to learn new ways to coping.
In therapy sessions, Angela utilizes insight-oriented and skills based approaches. She works with clients in learning to trust their own voice, while offering practical coping skills. She gently challenges clients to explore the root cause of their concerns, gaining new awareness into their emotional and relationship patterns. Angela encourages and teaches clients how to use mindfulness to be more in tune with their body and emotions.
Angela is trained and competent in dialectical behavioral therapy. She is competent in working with folkx in the gender expansive community and follows the World Professional Association for Transgender Health Standards of Care. Angela approaches therapy through the lens of feminist therapy perspective, and is affirming and sex positive.
Angela is committed to maintaining an inclusive practice, and is aware of how societal expectations contribute to what brings clients to therapy. She is affirming of all identities, and relationships. Angela believes in the power of the therapeutic relationship and connection between client and therapist to heal painful past experiences and to help clients feel more secure in their own vulnerability.
