Angela Hastings

Angela Hastings is a Michigan-licensed social worker with 12 years of clinical experience. She uses a warm, interactive style and aims to build a supportive working relationship. Angela approaches sessions like a mentor or coach and centers clients in setting goals and pace.

She has worked with people facing crisis intervention, life transitions, chronic anxiety, and depression. Her practice also addresses body image, eating and food-related issues, self-harm, and concerns tied to faith. Isolation and loneliness are listed among the issues she focuses on.

Her approach is client-centered, which means she follows each person’s priorities and adjusts pace to fit their needs. She blends techniques from solution-focused work, cognitive behavioral methods, dialectical behavior strategies, and motivational interviewing to create practical steps people can try between sessions.

Sessions aim to be collaborative and down-to-earth. Angela emphasizes unconditional compassion while helping clients set manageable goals. She often frames therapy as coaching toward clearer choices and better coping with everyday stressors.

Clients can expect straightforward conversation about symptoms, patterns, and small skills to apply outside of sessions. Angela emphasizes realistic plans for change and supports people working through grief, relationship strain, career shifts, and the effects of trauma or compassion fatigue.

How her approaches shape online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on what matters most to the client and lets the person set the pace and goals for sessions. This helps when someone needs a gentle, personalized plan for dealing with loneliness, grief, or life changes.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches concrete skills to change them. It is often used for anxiety, panic attacks, depression, and body image concerns.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. It can be useful for impulsivity, strong emotional reactions, and managing self-harm urges.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Angela works collaboratively to figure out which methods fit a person’s goals and preferences. Together they decide which skills to try, when to shift focus, and how to structure sessions to make steady progress.

Confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow a shorter check-in when needed, and reduce travel time. Therapists can use session time to teach skills, practice new responses, and set small tasks to work on between meetings.