Angelique Gettle , LMFT

Angelique Gettle is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and issues with self-esteem and relationships. She brings 25 years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on women's issues among other concerns. Her style aims to be warm, respectful, and responsive to each person's needs.

She favors an interactive, person-centered approach that puts the client's experience first. Sessions are conversational and practical, with attention to how attachment and past relationships shape present reactions. Cognitive strategies are used when people want tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.

Angelique draws on emotionally-focused ideas to help people deepen awareness of their feelings and needs. She also brings existential perspectives when people face big life questions or want to find more meaning after loss or major change. The work often blends different approaches to match what the person needs right now.

Her background includes long-term clinical practice with adults dealing with addictions, compassion fatigue, family of origin issues, and intimacy-related concerns. She often addresses abandonment, attachment issues, codependency, and communication problems in therapy.

Sessions aim to be collaborative and paced to what the client can manage. Angelique encourages people to take small, concrete steps toward change and to notice what improves along the way.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships affect current connections and emotional reactions; online sessions can help people notice patterns and try different ways of relating in day-to-day life. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and empathy, giving people space to tell their story and make their own choices while the therapist reflects and supports. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) provides practical exercises to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, such as homework, thought records, and small behavior experiments useful between sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick or combine methods that match their goals, preferences, and the issues they bring. That decision evolves as people try techniques and see what helps most in their daily life.

Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy routine. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, immediate emotional support, or when writing through thoughts feels clearer. These options offer flexibility so people can continue care around work, caregiving, or other commitments.