Counsellor profile
Angela Richardson Goodwin, PACFA
PACFA counsellor - Relationships and parenting
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- Relationship communication
- Mindfulness practices
- Assessment and worksheets
About Angela
Angela Richardson Goodwin is a PACFA counsellor with 15 years of professional experience based in Australia. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, parenting strain, and self-esteem. She also works with issues such as abandonment, attachment, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, communication problems, control issues, separation and divorce, guilt and shame, impulsivity, isolation, life purpose and midlife questions.
Her style mixes contemporary, evidence-based psychological research with practical tools. She uses clinical psychotherapeutic methods alongside Gestalt principles and mindfulness practices shaped by time living in the USA, Asia and India. Sessions may include worksheets and psychometric assessments to clarify patterns and guide practical steps.
Angela describes therapy as a skills-based process. She helps people identify unhelpful behavioural dynamics and develop coping strategies. Conversations aim to create clearer communication, stronger emotional connection, and workable ways to manage everyday pressure and parenting demands.
Her background includes a previous career as an IT business analyst across Asia and North America and early service in the Defence Forces where she trained as a nurse. Those roles inform a structured, pragmatic approach to problem solving and endurance building.
Outside work she sails, surfs and has long volunteer experience in surf lifesaving. That balance of physical activity and clinical work influences how she frames mind-body connections and practical resilience-building in sessions.
How sessions work
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions work
Angela draws on contemporary evidence-based psychological research combined with Gestalt principles and mindfulness practices. Evidence-based techniques focus on identifying unhelpful behaviour patterns and building new coping skills to reduce anxiety and improve relationship communication. Gestalt-informed work pays attention to present-moment experience and interactions, which can help people notice patterns in how they relate to others.Mindfulness practices she uses are simple attention and breathing exercises that help reduce reactivity and increase awareness of bodily signals. These practices can be useful for managing stress, chronic pain responses, or intense emotions related to relationship strain.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to test what helps most, adjusting methods to suit the client’s goals and preferences. That might mean drawing more on practical worksheets and assessments at one stage, then focusing on mindfulness or Gestalt exercises at another.
The original biography does not list specific online session formats. Please confirm the current session options before booking. Online work can help fit sessions into a busy routine, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also makes it easier to continue ongoing therapeutic work alongside parenting and other daily commitments.
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Experience
15+ years
Listed in
Australia
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting strain and self-esteem, plus a wide range of related concerns such as attachment, caregiver stress and midlife questions.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach draws on contemporary evidence-based psychological research combined with Gestalt principles and mindfulness. Sessions often use practical tools and worksheets to change behaviour and improve coping.
How much experience does she have?
She has 15 years of experience working with relationship and personal wellbeing issues.
What credential and location information is relevant?
She is listed with PACFA and is based in Australia.
In which languages are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients book sessions?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are sessions paid for and what do they cost?
Cost varies with location; sessions operate through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I start a first session?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.