About Angela

Angela Sitka, M.A., Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Santa Rosa and Sonoma County

You need a therapist you can truly trust and find a connection with because you don’t want to waste time and resources with a therapist who isn’t the right fit for you.

I want to share with you the why and how I help as a therapist, so you can be confident that you are in good hands in my practice.

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How I Help My Clients:

  • My clients are intelligent and capable people who need a therapist who doesn’t just sit back and listen, they need direction from their therapist to see the bigger picture of all the complexities of their lives.

    The clients who find me a good match are typically looking for a therapist with a calm and steady demeanor, rational perspective, and deep emotional empathy. Someone who picks up on all the little details, pieces them together and gives a roadmap to navigate extremely confusing relational dynamics and complex life circumstances.

    Past clients comment that my qualities of patience, attentiveness, and expertise in relational issues helped them have the confidence to move forward in make real positive changes in their lives.

  • As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, my training and experience is grounded in understanding relationships and seeing our emotional pain through a relational lens.

    I am passionate about helping people dig deep into understanding their patterns and having those “ah-ha” moments that allow for healthy and happy connections with others.

    While I utilize several different approaches with my clients to create a personalized treatment plan, but my overall view of helping my clients is through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with elements of Psychodynamic or Relational Psychotherapy to deepen the therapy experience.

    I maintain a relatively small caseload of clients compared to most therapists in private practice, due to the nature of my work, I need to be highly attentive and remember the details of my clients lives. This also allows me to think about what will help you apply the things we talk and practice in therapy into your life outside of therapy.

    You might receive follow-up emails with key takeaways or leave sessions with handouts of tools and concepts to keep the work going. I recommend readings and books, and other resources I think would help you.

    My goal is for you to carry what you learn here into your everyday life, so the changes don’t stay in therapy, they show up in how you actually live.

  • I was first introduced to ACT many years ago during my clinical training internship, when I was working with adolescents with severe and chronic eating disorders. I was really struck by how much relief it provided clients to realize they didn’t have to get rid of all their thoughts and feelings around food or their bodies in order to move forward in recovery.

    Since then, I’ve been curious about this modality because it helps us understand and respond differently to our thoughts and feelings, instead of fighting against them, reasoning with them, trying to distract from them, avoiding them, or otherwise tell ourselves to “Stop thinking that way!” These strategies have never worked for me in the long-run.

    It’s action-oriented, meaning we want to get you moving toward doing and practicing the things that will elicit positive change in your life. It’s aligning ourselves with our values, and finding what we DO have control over, and taking action in those areas.

 
 

My Qualifications as a Licensed Psychotherapist:

 
 

My Journey to Become a Psychotherapist

Maybe like you, understanding relationships, and how to manage my thoughts and feelings didn’t come naturally to me, and I had to find the resources to figure it out.

This led to a curiosity about human psychology, and how we interact within our relationships.

When I began my undergraduate years at UC Davis, I got involved in a peer counseling internship. I was surprised that it just felt like a natural fit for my strengths and passions.

I am a natural question-asker, obsessed with documentaries, learning about other cultures, and personal self-development. My pursuit of learning continued, and continues, after my graduate and post-graduate training. I am always looking into new trainings, books, modalities, and ways to help my clients. I love what I do.

 

In-person counseling in Santa Rosa and Online Counseling in California

I know it can feel like a big step to call a counselor, but I’ll make it easy.

We’ll spend 15-minutes on the phone and I’ll let you know how or if I can help.

Contact me for your free phone consultation for therapy in Santa Rosa and Sonoma County.

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Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked Questions

Angela Sitka, LMFT, offering counseling in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County and online in California

Learn more about my Specialties:

Relationship Anxiety

Stressed Out Professionals

Men’s Issues

Young Adult Issues

Get started with counseling, today.

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