Angela Perez Bartolome is a clinical social worker with nearly 15 years as a psychotherapist, nearly 10 years as a clinical educator, and 20 years as a community organizer and advocate. Angela completed her MSW from the USC School of Social Work and finished her EdD from USC in Organizational Change and Leadership.

Angela is the Clinical Director of the Asian American Drug Abuse Program (AADAP) and an independent consultant. Over the past twenty years, Angela has worked in the community, illustrating consistency and dedication to community-based approaches toward sustainable well-being. 

Angela’s diverse clinical experiences include a strength-based and social justice-oriented lens -- providing care to low-income communities, system-involved children and families, trauma survivors, LGBTQ-healthcare access, treatment for substance use disorders and other co-occurring disorders, and more. Her clinical approaches utilize and integrate traditional and non-traditional practices, such as CBT, MI, EMDR, Reiki, Mindfulness, and more.

As a well-respected clinical field educator, Angela fosters the development of socially conscious clinicians by promoting critical thinking, resilience-building, and sustainable systems for recovery for community members and students. She recognizes the intersectionality of well-being and cultivates intentionality in care accessibility, social justice, anti-racism, and sustainability.