Angella Allison-Davis

Angella has been involved in counseling in a variety of settings since 1994. Her experiences include counseling, working with adolescent/adult in-patient treatment, mental health agencies, hospitals, and educational systems. She has worked with clients and students with anger/emotional distress, relationship issues, depression, suicidal ideation & behaviors, and other forms of mental illness.

Angella has a passion for helping others (especially young people in conjunction with family and community support) on their healing journey. Angella’s primary focus as a social service professional has been connected to crisis counseling/intervention related to family and individual issues and has been trained in verbal and physical restraint intervention/strategies on how to handle anxious, hostile and violent crisis situations. Additionally, she deals with behavioral problems, family communication difficulties, grief and loss, bereavement, identity and parenting issues, relationship conflicts and spiritual growth. (These are not specialization areas, only area’s of experience). In addition she has a passion for working with young women who desire to explore and strengthen their identity and self-image.  

Angella, who is a licensed minister, holds a Masters in Divinity (M.Div.) from Duke University Divinity School in Durham, NC and a Bachelor of Arts in Human Services (B.A) from the University of Massachusetts, in Boston. Angella is currently pursuing her Doctorate Degree in Pastoral Counseling/Psychotherapy at the Graduate Theological Foundation, South Bend, Indiana, in conjunction with the Department of Pastoral Care and Counseling at Alamance Regional Hospital.  She is also a student member with the American Association of Pastoral Counselors. 

Her clinical training includes internships at Massachusetts Crisis Hotline, Roxbury District Court, Clinical Pastoral Training at UNC- Chapel Hill Hospital, The North Carolina Division of Prisons, Adjunct Staff Chaplain with Alamance Regional Hospital; and clinical supervision at Carolina Institute for Clinical Pastoral Training (PSCC).

Angella is currently an associate minister at Mount Carmel Baptist Church in Charlotte, NC; where she is responsible for preaching and teaching, worship leadership, bible study, providing religious and spiritual direction/activities for the children’s department as well as helping to implement a newly created counseling ministry called M.I.C.A.H. (Ministry in Care and Helps). Additionally, Angella is trained in the Common Sense Parenting Model, Mediation and Crisis Counseling.