Angela Ayoub Shunnarah, LICSW, LMSW, is a licensed clinical social worker who specializes in the treatment of anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD) in children, adolescents, and young adults. She is licensed to practice in Iowa, Alabama, and her home state of Michigan.

Angela has been treating anxiety and OCD for over 12 years and has received extensive, specialized training in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), with a particular focus on exposure-based treatments. She is also trained in SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions), a parent-based intervention for children and adolescents with anxiety and OCD. Angela is committed to providing evidence-based care and to staying current with the latest research and best practices in the field, ensuring the highest quality treatment for the individuals and families she serves.

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Angela earned both her Bachelor of Science (2011) and Master of Social Work (2012) degrees from the University of Michigan. During her MSW program, she completed her clinical internship in the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Department at the University of Michigan Health System. She went on to complete a two-year post-graduate fellowship at the Mary A. Rackham Institute’s University Center for the Child and Family.

Following her fellowship, Angela worked as a clinical therapist at Michigan Medicine’s Child and Adolescent Anxiety Clinic, where she also served as a therapist in an OCD clinical trial. She then spent three years in private practice at the Anxiety & OCD Treatment Center of Ann Arbor before relocating to Alabama in 2019.