Welcome to Angel's Marriage Counseling
Online Marriage Counseling in Washington, Oregon and California
Helping Couples Restore Loving Bonds Through Compassionate Marriage Counseling.
About Anjelika Layco, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
My name is Angel. After graduating from California State University of Fullerton with a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, I have been providing counseling to couples, children, individuals, and families for over 16 years.
I worked for Phoenix House, a non-profit drug and alcohol rehabilitation organization, helping teenagers feel greater self-worth, overcome addiction, and reconnect with their families. I volunteered as a CASA (court appointed special advocate) and as a crisis hotline operator at Laura's house domestic violence agency.
Over the last 10 years, I am exclusively dedicated to marriage and couples counseling. My marriage counseling approach is grounded in compassionate and effective principles of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, Imago Relationship Therapy, and the Gottman Therapy Method.
Why I became a marriage and family therapist
I see the profession of a marriage and family therapist as one that brings fulfillment and meaning into my life by helping others. Life experiences influenced my decision to become a marriage and family therapist.
My life had been filled with a mix of happy moments and painful traumas. Healing was a challenging journey that required immense inner work. Even though it's not easy, I know that it is possible to break the cycle of abuse, heal from trauma, and create a happy and fulfilling life.
Angel's Online Counseling Services
Online Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
Healing After Infidelity and Trauma Online Couples Counseling
Healing After Infidelity and Trauma Online Couples Counseling
Reconnect and Rebuild Your Relationship.
If you feel like you and your partner are losing connection, conflict depletes your marriage, you love each other, but can’t get along, and you would like to communicate more effectively, feel connected and trust each other again, Online Couples Counseling is for you!
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) is one of the most effective approaches that successfully addresses marital distress, infidelity, and history of trauma in a relationship.
Healing After Infidelity and Trauma Online Couples Counseling
Healing After Infidelity and Trauma Online Couples Counseling
Healing After Infidelity and Trauma Online Couples Counseling
Reclaim Your Life
After Infidelity and Trauma.
Restore Trust.
Reconnect and Rebuild Your Relationship.
Trauma impacts the quality of couples’ relationships.
Infidelity is devastating to a marriage.
The partner, whose trust was broken by infidelity, experiences tremendous emotional pain, has a high level of distress, which makes it hard for this person to feel safe.
Online Intimacy Counseling and Sex Therapy
Healing After Infidelity and Trauma Online Couples Counseling
Online Intimacy Counseling and Sex Therapy
Reignite passion in your relationship.
Intimacy Therapy is an integral part of marriage counseling.
Intimacy and sex are important aspects of any romantic relationship, but they can be difficult to talk about.
Feeling vulnerable, fears of rejection, inadequacy, a past history of trauma, and/or insecure attachment styles may impact couples' relationships and be the cause for couples' struggles with physical intimacy.
Online Premarital Counseling
Online Premarital Counseling
Online Intimacy Counseling and Sex Therapy
Build a strong foundation for a happy marriage.
Preparing for marriage can be both exciting and overwhelming.
Premarital counseling helps couples build a strong foundation for a happy and fulfilling marriage by identifying potential challenges and developing the tools to overcome them.
Online Individual Counseling
Online Premarital Counseling
Online Individual Counseling
Find Hope. Heal. Thrive.
If you survived a traumatic event, experience stress and anxiety,
and it is affecting your relationship and overall emotional well-being,
I am here to help.
I offer online individual counseling to help you heal and feel happy again.
Online Family Counseling
Online Premarital Counseling
Online Individual Counseling
Reconnect with your loved one.
I provide family counseling for parents and their adult children who want to rebuild connection, improve relationship and communication.
Family counseling can also help couples and individuals work through issues related to parenting, in-laws, and other family dynamics.
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
For centuries love, mysterious and puzzling in its nature, had been the exclusive domain of poets and songwriters. A 19th-century poet described the connection to a loved one as a safe haven: “Beside him I fear or dread none.” Love has been described as a source of joy and happiness as well as a source of misery and pain.
Not until a few decades ago has romantic love been demystified by psychologists and scientists. Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), described by Johnson as an empirically validated theory of adult love relationships, made love less mystifying.
Based on Bowlby’s attachment theory, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy conceptualizes love as an attachment process. The attachment perspective on adult love suggests that secure bonds are built on interactions in which partners, who are perceived as attachment figures, are accessible and responsive to each other’s attachment needs.
The availability of an attachment figure, especially in times of stress and hardships, provides partners with safe haven for expressing their deepest emotions as well as providing and receiving comfort from each other.
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) is one of the most effective approaches that successfully addresses marital distress, infidelity, and history of trauma in a relationship.
Research has shown that 70% of couples recover from marital distress, and 90% of couples experience improvement in the quality of their relationship with an EFT therapist.
The couples report that they continue maintaining positive progress two years after finishing marriage counselling.
The couples report having fewer conflicts, feeling more connected, and are communicating with each other in a more positive and effective way.
