Meet Angela
Angela Schellenberg
CEO and founder
Angela Schellenberg is an LMHC licensed Mental Health Trauma psychotherapist. She specializes in helping clients through trauma, attachment, grief, loss, PTSD, gun violence, and sudden and instant death. She is a humanistic counselor, writer, speaker, educator, and non-profit executive director.
Angela's Journey
Angela knows firsthand how sudden death leaves a ripple effect through the lives of those left behind. Angela lost both of her parents by the time she was twenty-two. Her father to gun violence when she was sixteen. She lost her mother twice, once when she was eleven, to mental illness and her mother being institutionalized. Then, when she was twenty-two, her mother died during her junior year of college, after many years of Angela caring for her. Angela’s life work has been learning to pick up the pieces after such a loss. She is currently working on her memoir, TRUE.
Angela has lived and worked internationally in Shanghai, China, Saudi Arabia, and Chiangmai, Thailand. She worked as an Executive Director in Asia, educating orphanage leaders on how to teach children about identity, self-esteem, and safety.
As a K-8 certified teacher, Angela brings skills to her practice as a psychotherapist that helps educate her clients in understanding how to change behavior, increase their happiness and overcome adversity.
She currently lives in Seattle, Washington, with her husband, their twin boys, and three pugs.
Areas of Expertise
- Trauma, Acute Trauma, PTSD, Complex Trauma, Childhood Trauma, Generational Trauma, and Religious Trauma.
- Sudden Instant Death, Gun Violence Survivors, Grief, and Loss.
- Co-Facilitate Early Mother Loss Retreats with Hope Edelman, New York’s Best-Selling Author of the book, “Motherless Daughters”, “Parentless Parents”, and “Mother-Daughter Relationships”.
- “Mother Hunger®” Facilitator trained by therapist and author Kelly McDaniel.
Education and Certifications
- Master of Arts in Mental Health Counseling from Say Brook University.
- Certified K-8 Teaching
- Certificate with Reading Endorsement from Washington State University.
- Complex Trauma Certification, CCTP1/CCTPll.
- EMDR Trained
- Mother Hunger® trained facilitator
- Certified Grief and Loss Provider with Claire Bidwell Smith.
- Restorative Retelling Certification.
- Certified in EFT Tapping Level l& ll.
- Certified Matrix Re-imprinting Practitioner, Reiki level 1 Certified.
- Laughter Yoga Certification, ACT, and extensive attachment and somatic work training.
Would you love to get started on your healing journey?
People that inspire me
Angela with Claire Bidwell Smith
These are some of the beautiful writers and people who inspire me. Cheryl Strayed, Scott Stabile, Samantha Dunn, Jennifer Pastiloff, , Karen Lynch, Steve Almond, Hope Edelman, Claire Bidwell Smith , Pam Huston, Lidia Yuknavitch