Angela Totman, LPC

Angela Totman is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with two decades of experience in education and school counseling. She focuses on stress and anxiety alongside relationship concerns, low self-esteem, depression, and coping with life changes. Angela aims to help people build coping skills and move toward practical solutions in day-to-day life.

She trained at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, earning a Master of Education in Counseling and Guidance. Much of her work has been in schools, where she supported children, adolescents, and adults through grief, crisis, and suicide intervention and postvention. That background shapes a calm, steady approach toward urgent concerns.

Her work uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, plus psychoeducation and Solution-Focused Therapy. In sessions she mixes teaching, practical skill-building, and short-term goal work to address symptoms and improve coping.

Angela emphasizes trauma-informed care and helps clients restore a sense of control after difficult experiences. She focuses on realistic, manageable steps like changing unhelpful thoughts, practicing new behaviors, and building routines that reduce overwhelm.

Clients can expect a collaborative relationship where goals are defined together. Outside of work, she enjoys running, time in nature, reading, and family life. Her practice is based in Texas and sessions are offered in English.

How evidence-based techniques work in online therapy

Angela commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood. It focuses on specific skills you can practice between sessions. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy is another approach she uses; it targets core beliefs and helps replace rigid or extreme thinking with more balanced ideas to reduce emotional distress.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively with each client to decide which techniques fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they set practical goals and try methods that can be adjusted as progress is made.

Session logistics should be confirmed before booking since formats were not specified in the biography. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, skip travel time, or check in during a work break. It also allows use of worksheets, screen-sharing for psychoeducation, and brief between-session tasks that support steady progress.