Angela Alderman-Shotton, LPC

Angela Alderman-Shotton is an Oklahoma licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 11 years of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, anger, relationship problems, and life changes. Angela also works with issues around addiction, grief, intimacy, parenting concerns, and identity questions affecting LGBT clients.

Her style draws on Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, with additional use of Existential Therapy, the Gottman Method, and Motivational Interviewing. Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer thinking, not just talk. She helps people identify patterns, test new ways of responding, and practice small changes between meetings.

Angela often addresses family-of-origin concerns, attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, communication and control problems, and challenges around blended families and fatherhood. She also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, divorce and separation, domestic violence histories, and emptiness or identity struggles. Her work includes attention to career stress and bipolar-related coping strategies.

Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. She listens for what matters most, then frames options from evidence-informed methods so clients can pick what fits them. Practical tools, communication practice, and steps to reduce reactivity are common parts of sessions.

To start, she asks about current struggles and goals, then outlines short-term and longer-term steps. Angela uses the Carl Rogers-inspired idea that accepting where you are helps change happen. This guides how she supports people as they work on anger, relationships, and everyday stress.

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