Angela Soto, LCSW-C, is a Maryland licensed clinician with more than 25 years of experience helping children, teens, adults, couples, and families through some of life’s hardest seasons. She is a certified Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapist (TF-CBT), trained in Play Therapy, and offers therapy in both English and Spanish.
“People aren’t problems to be fixed. They’re humans who need to be heard.”
Angela was born in Bogotá, Colombia, and moved to Montgomery County when she was ten. She spent much of her childhood translating, not just between Spanish and English but between cultures, expectations, and identities. She knows what it feels like not to quite fit anywhere, and that experience shaped the belief at the center of her work: the most healing thing you can offer someone is to truly see them. That means not fixing them, judging them, or rushing them.
Angela has extensive experience with families going through complex, high-conflict separation and divorce. She provides reunification therapy, parent and divorce coaching, and therapeutic supervised visitation. She also works alongside the legal system to protect the well-being of children and their families. She has been designated an expert witness in child and adolescent mental health, domestic violence, and abuse and neglect.
Her clinical work meets families where they are. She supports children with ADHD and behavioral challenges, helps anxious teens realize they aren’t broken, and uses play therapy and TF-CBT to help kids heal from trauma. She guides parents through a teen’s struggle with substance use or problematic gaming, along other daily challenges of life. Trained in the Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and Cognitive Behavioral Couples Therapy, she also helps couples rebuild trust and reconnect. Her approach is strength-based. A child who has been told he’s “bad” leaves her office understanding that his brain simply works differently, and that this can be a strength.
Angela has also trained hundreds of Montgomery County employees in diversity and equity, out of a conviction that everyone deserves to be seen and understood.
She believes each client’s own beliefs and values guide the work, whatever they are. If you’re looking for a therapist who will truly listen and who genuinely cares, Angela would love to hear from you.
