Angelica Russo, LPC, ACS
Empowering families to navigate life’s transitions with compassion, resilience, and practical solutions.
Expert Guidance for the Whole Family
Angelica believes that even in the midst of significant familial upset, there is a path toward healing and growth. As a Licensed Professional Counselor and Approved Clinical Supervisor, she brings a wealth of experience from her time as a Certified NJ School Counselor and her work providing intensive in-home therapy to at-risk youth. She specializes in supporting children and families through the complexities of divorce, grief, and life-altering transitions, providing a warm and compassionate environment where every family member feels heard.
Practical Tools for Growth, Regulation, and Resilience
Angelica’s approach is proactive and empowering. Having developed social-emotional curricula for public schools, she is an expert in Social Skills Training and Anger Management for children (K-5) and adolescents. By utilizing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Solution-Focused techniques, she helps clients identify their inherent strengths and motivates them to implement meaningful change. Whether your family is navigating a recent loss or your child needs support with self-esteem and anxiety, Angelica provides the seasoned clinical leadership necessary for lasting wellness.
Clinical Focus:
Divorce & Familial Transition: Helping children and parents navigate the emotional and logistical shifts of separation and divorce.
Grief & Bereavement Support: Specialized care for families processing loss, focused on healthy mourning and resilience.
Social-Emotional Skill Building: Leveraging school-based expertise to teach children emotional regulation, social skills, and anger management.
At-Risk Youth & Crisis Stabilization: Utilizing experience from intensive in-home settings to support families in high-stress environments.
Proactive, Advocacy-Based, & Social-Emotional Supervision
With a specialized background as a Certified NJ School Counselor and a veteran of intensive in-home crisis work, Angelica’s supervision is a hands-on, advocacy-focused partnership. She transitions supervisees from traditional talk therapy into the world of proactive, systems-based intervention. Angelica serves as a seasoned mentor for those working with "at-risk" dynamics, offering the social-emotional tools and the compassionate leadership necessary to stabilize families and empower the youngest clients to thrive.
Supervisory Style:
The School-to-Home Lens: Angelica provides a unique bridge between educational systems and clinical practice. She mentors supervisees in the development of Social Skills Training and Anger Management protocols, helping clinicians navigate the specific developmental needs of children (K-5) and adolescents with practical, school-informed expertise.
Navigating Familial "Upset": Specialized in the complexities of divorce and transition, Angelica mentors clinicians in the delicate art of maintaining a neutral, child-centered focus during high-conflict shifts. She provides a "safety net" for those handling the emotional weight of family loss and life-altering transitions.
Social-Emotional Skill Building: Drawing from her experience developing public school curricula, she helps supervisees integrate CBT and Solution-Focused techniques that are actually accessible to kids. She focuses on teaching clinicians how to move beyond "problem-talk" toward building a child's inherent regulation and resilience.
Empowering Clinical Leadership: Supervision with Angelica is a proactive experience. She doesn’t just monitor hours; she utilizes her background as an Approved Clinical Supervisor to ensure you are meeting the highest standards of evidence-based care while finding your own "voice" as an advocate for the families you serve.
