Angela Jensen-Ramirez

Licensed Clinical Social Worker and
Social work Supervisor in Texas (#67109) and California (#66376) Since 2015

Educator
Sex Therapist
Emotionally Focused Couples & Individual Therapist
ClinicianAdjunct Professor
Consultant/Supervisor

Specializing in Trauma and how it impacts individuals intra and interpersonally in their intimate lives. Angela warmly welcomes ALL LBGTQIA folx and relationships.

Meet Angela

Angela Jensen-Ramirez, LCSW-S is a licensed psychotherapist based in Austin, Texas, specializing in couples therapy, sex therapy, relationship repair, and attachment-based psychotherapy. She works with couples and individuals who want more than symptom relief—they want deeper connection, healthier relationships, and lasting change.

As one of the few clinicians in Texas who is both an ICEEFT Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist (EFT) and an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, Angela brings advanced expertise in helping couples heal emotional and sexual disconnection. Her work integrates the science of adult attachment, nervous system regulation, and relational safety to help partners rebuild trust, strengthen intimacy, and create more secure, resilient relationships.

Angela specializes in helping clients navigate:

CNM/ENM and all open relationships - all stages and most structures
Trauma that interrupts communication and attachment signals
Couples looking to stay together but would benefit from support
Sexual concerns and desire discrepancy
Perinatal and Postpartum
Sex, sexual identity, sex therapy
Neurodiversity in relationships (including ADHD and autism)
LGBTQIA+ affirming care
So much more!

Whether couples feel trapped in repetitive arguments, disconnected despite loving one another, or uncertain about the future of their relationship, Angela helps them understand the patterns beneath the conflict so they can reconnect in meaningful, lasting ways.

In addition to traditional weekly therapy, Angela offers Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy Intensives. These extended sessions provide an opportunity to make significant progress over a concentrated period of time and are especially helpful for couples who feel stuck, have limited scheduling flexibility, or want to accelerate the therapeutic process. Intensives are therapy—not retreats or workshops—and are individualized to each couple's goals.

Angela's style is collaborative, compassionate, and direct. She believes meaningful change happens when clients feel emotionally safe enough to explore difficult experiences with honesty and curiosity. Rather than offering quick fixes, she helps clients develop deeper insight, emotional responsiveness, and practical skills that strengthen relationships long after therapy ends.

Angela provides therapy for clients throughout Texas and California via secure telehealth and welcomes couples and individuals from diverse identities, cultures, relationship structures, and lived experiences.

A Note About Care

Angela is committed to providing thoughtful, high-quality psychotherapy. Because her practice focuses on outpatient attachment-based therapy, it is not equipped to provide emergency services or treatment for acute psychiatric crises. If you are experiencing an emergency or require a higher level of care, she will gladly help connect you with more appropriate resources.

And Finally…

If you've made it this far, you deserve to meet Mr. Sweenie Todd—Angela's beloved miniature Dachshund and unofficial office mascot. He's currently perfecting his therapy skills from home (mostly through expert napping and enthusiastic tail wags). While he isn't quite ready to greet clients in the office, we're hopeful he may someday make a guest appearance.

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Supervision

emotionally focused therapy

Emotionally Focused Therapy is a modality of couples and individual therapy that slows down and extinguishes harmful reactive behaviors that damage relationships.

Together, we will identify the negative reactive cycle that is keeping you stuck and replace it with clearer communication that speaks directly to the heart of the matter.

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sex therapy

Research consistently shows that there is a positive relationship between sexual satisfaction and overall relationship satisfactions, stability and longevity.

Oddly, we are not taught to talk about sex in a healthy way with our partners or even ourselves.

We, and the people we love, are left in confusion, isolation, and emotional pain.

You are not alone.

Angela is a trained and well versed sex therapist that can help you to regain understanding, confidence, and joy in your most intimate parts of life and relationship.

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Experienced Relationship Counselor

Teaching, Supervision, and Training

Angela is a clinical supervisor for California and Texas based Associate and Trainee Social Workers and regularly mentors new clinicians in both couples and individual psychotherapy.

Angela currently serves on the faculty at Sentio University in California, where she teaches the Sex Therapy Track classes along with other classes in the Marriage and Family Therapy program.

She is also an Adjunct Professor at The University of Texas at Austin in the Steve Hicks School of Social Work, where she teaches Couples Counseling.

In addition, Angela teaches for sex therapists with Relational Minds in Austin, Texas—an advanced training institute for sex therapists. She teaches two courses:

Opening: Clinical Skills for Working with Open and Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships
The Sensate Way

Angela is an approved Continuing Education provider through the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT).

As the current Board Vice Chair for The Austin Community for Emotionally Focused Therapy, Angela volunteers her time to foster community amongst Austin, Texas local therapist in the modality of Emotionally Focused Therapy developed by Dr. Sue Johnson.

In this role, Angela teaches and promotes the evident-based and highly effective modality of Emotionally Focused Therapy so that all therapists that work with couples might have the skill and knowledge to support their clients through some of the most difficult phases of relationship.

That's me in the middle under Angela Jensen-Ramirez! Here I am with a panel of local Austin Sex Therapists talking with students from UT Austin's Steve Hicks School of Social Work. This amazing group of students has formed their own club called "Sexuality in Social Work"!

Angela with Dr. Emily Nagoski at Cheer Up Charlies in Austin, Texas for a Pajama Party fundraiser supporting Austin local non-profit UnHushed

Mr. Sweenie Todd the Dachshund Dog!

My little co-pilot in life.

He won't join us in session but I assure you he wants to!

There are names for what binds us:
strong forces, weak forces.
Look around, you can see them:
the skin that forms in a half-empty cup,
nails rusting into the places they join,
joints dovetailed on their own weight.
The way things stay so solidly
wherever they’ve been set down —
and gravity, scientists say, is weak.

And see how the flesh grows back
across a wound, with a great vehemence,
more strong
than the simple, untested surface before.
There’s a name for it on horses,
when it comes back darker and raised: proud flesh,

as all flesh,
is proud of its wounds, wears them
as honors given out after battle,
small triumphs pinned to the chest —

And when two people have loved each other
see how it is like a
scar between their bodies,
stronger, darker, and proud;
how the black cord makes of them a single fabric
that nothing can tear or mend.

Found on the Website:

https://www.themarginalian.org/