About Angela
Angela Knight is a licensed marriage and family therapist who has worked in California for 29 years. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or problems with intimacy and relationships.
Background and approach
She also supports those facing addiction, ADHD, career strain, and the long road of recovery after trauma. Her sessions focus on practical skills and steady support.
She starts by listening to each person's story and identifying strengths to build on. Then she teaches tools drawn from cognitive and emotion-focused methods to reduce distress and improve day-to-day coping.
Angela favors straightforward techniques that people can use between sessions. That might look like practicing new communication habits, trying a behavior change exercise, or learning a simple grounding skill for intense moments.
She pairs those tools with an effort to clarify attachment patterns and how past relationships influence present behavior. Clients can expect a collaborative style that centers their goals.
Angela describes the client as the expert on their life and offers guidance, feedback, and exercises tailored to the situation. Her aim is to help people move toward more manageable emotions, better relationships, and clearer decisions.
Throughout her work she combines Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy. Those approaches guide how she structures sessions and selects skills to practice between meetings.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people see how early bonds influence current relationships and emotional reactions. Online sessions can use this work to identify patterns and practice new ways of connecting with others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through short, practical exercises and homework tasks that are easy to assign and review in virtual sessions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods out, and adjust techniques based on what actually helps. This collaborative process helps match skills and strategies to the client's needs and preferences over time.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage. Video calls let people do longer, face-to-face sessions and practice communication skills in real time. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option when video is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, quick skill reminders, and ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep practicing skills when life gets in the way.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English