Consultation

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For Compassionate Vegans, Advocates, Seekers, and Changemakers

Meet with me individually for customized consultation, mentoring, and support to address your personal or professional concerns.

This is your hour with me to address topics such as:

  • Thriving emotionally and socially with a vegan lifestyle
  • Communication and relationship challenges
  • Mind-body-spirit wellness
  • Emotional resilience and well-being
  • Stress management
  • Life transitions, such as career, loss, or illness
  • Finding and expressing your authentic purpose
  • Listening to and following inner guidance
  • Breaking through limiting patterns
  • Empowered advocacy and expressing your unique voice
  • Bringing a book into the world
  • Plant-based cooking and nutrition

Our virtual session will be on Zoom and you receive a recording at the end. 

To schedule, click on the link below.

Click here or on the image above to schedule a consultation session. (NOTE – if you click on the link and don’t find any times available on my calendar, contact me via my contact form to schedule).

I believe we each have a unique purpose, and are most fulfilled when we express our authentic voice, message, and contribution. Often, as we follow the path to a plant-powered, vegan lifestyle, we experience personal transformation AND become deeply inspired to use our gifts to create a world that supports the flourishing of all beings. At the same time, we may experience emotional, social, and interpersonal challenges on our path.

During our time together, we may draw on the wisdom of approaches such as IFS, EMDR, and transformational coaching. May our time together empower your inner wisdom, confidence, purpose, and impact. I look forward to speaking with you.

Questions? Reach out to me via my contact form.

My Story

Angela Crawford, Ph.D., Psychologist, Transformational Coach, Vegan Lifestyle Educator, Food for Life Instructor, Certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition, Member of American College of Lifestyle Medicine

As a clinical psychologist for 25+ years, I have helped hundreds of people make lifestyle changes to achieve better physical, mental, and emotional health. In my previous work as a psychotherapist, I supported people to reach their goals to heal emotionally and build resilience. Now as a vegan educator, psychology consultant, and culinary instructor, I draw on this experience to empower people to thrive in mind, body, and spirit with a plant-powered, vegan lifestyle.

On a personal level, although I was physically active and valued a healthy lifestyle, for the first few decades of my life, I was not a healthy eater.  I ate a lot of comfort foods, microwave meals, sweets, and processed foods.  I thought I needed meat or dairy at nearly every meal.  I didn’t like to cook, and I didn’t eat many fruits and vegetables. 

What opened my eyes and led me to eating more plants was when I learned about how animal agriculture works.  I saw a TV program on PBS about workers in a meat processing plant. Many of them were immigrants, and they had frequent injuries from this difficult and dangerous work. They were coerced by their employer to not report their injuries – or they would risk loss of work and income. They didn’t have power in this system. It made me think about how my food got to me, and the injustices involved in this process.

And then I started to think, “If you don’t like how the workers are treated, what do you think happens to the animals?” This got me thinking about the whole process of animal agriculture, the suffering of animals, and what was actually going into my body when I ate animal-based foods. I started reading everything I could about vegetarianism and veganism. I read books like Diet for a New America by John Robbins that shed light on the ethical, environmental, and health impacts of animal agriculture. I also learned about the health benefits of a whole food vegan diet for reversing heart disease (research by Dr. Dean Ornish and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn), which hit home for me because I have a strong family history of heart disease. 

After watching that PBS program, I started cooking. The very next day, I bought my first plant-based cookbook, and made vegetarian lasagna. I had to buy all these new pots and pans because I rarely cooked. It was a great experience and I found that I loved to cook – once I switched to plant-based. 

So many doors opened. I tried new spices. I tried new ingredients that I’d never thought of before. I started trying a new recipe or two every week. And over a few months, I gave up meat entirely. It was deeply fulfilling – I learned to cook and to enjoy an abundance of healthy, delicious vegetarian meals.

Several years later, as I came to understand more about the harm to animals through various industries, I decided to become fully vegan. I eliminated dairy and eggs, and stopped purchasing leather and other animal-based products. I found that after releasing dairy from my life, my seasonal allergies – that I thought I would always have – just went away. Some skin conditions that I struggled with went away too. I also felt at peace emotionally as I lived more in alignment with my values of compassion for all beings, along with supporting my health and the planet.

So here I am, many years later, with great health and a lot of energy. I feel good about the way I’m eating, knowing that it is kinder to animals, the planet, and my own health. Becoming vegan unleashed a personal transformation that feels good on all levels.  I was previously a junk food eater, who now loves cooking. My food choices are so much more varied, interesting, healthy, and nourishing than they used to be! I’m an introvert who found her voice. I used to avoid public speaking and social media, but now have authored a book, been on dozens of podcasts, and frequently speak about psychology and veganism. I also found greater peace, fulfillment, and authenticity. Veganism brings together so many things I care about: compassion for all beings, values alignment, spiritual deepening, health empowerment, authentic fulfillment, and caring for nature and our planet.

Being vegan in a not-yet-vegan world has brought emotional challenges, including sadness, distress, and anger, as I’ve more fully connected with the pervasive harm and cruelty toward sentient beings in agriculture and other industries. And it has been challenging socially – especially in the beginning, as I learned to navigate holidays and social situations. But my commitment to this lifestyle, my WHY, has given me the motivation to move outside my comfort zone and learn the skills to overcome practical, social, and emotional hurdles on my vegan journey.

I was so inspired by all the benefits of vegan living that I sought out further training. I became certified as a Master Vegan Lifestyle Coach and Educator (MSVA) and licensed PCRM Food for Life Instructor. I have a certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition (T. Colin Campbell Institute), and I’m also a Certified Transformational Coach.

I researched and wrote the book, The Vegan Transformation: A Journey to Heal Yourself and the World, which shares the psychological and spiritual aspects of vegan living. My group coaching and educational programs empower people to thrive with a plant-powered, vegan lifestyle, to overcome emotional and social challenges along the way, and to find and express their unique voice, message, and contribution.