About Angela
Angela Knight is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 29 years of clinical experience in California. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and struggles with self-esteem and motivation. She also supports people dealing with relationship challenges, grief, addiction concerns, and intimacy-related issues.
Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. She treats the person in front of her as the expert in their own life and focuses on practical steps to feel better.
How Angela works
Sessions combine skill teaching with gentle exploration of patterns that keep problems stuck. Angela uses several evidence-based methods to guide sessions, including cognitive-behavioral techniques to shift thinking and behavior, emotion-focused work to address attachment and relationship patterns, and dialectical behavior strategies for strong emotion regulation. She also draws on client-centered principles to keep the work grounded in each person's values and goals.
Clients can expect clear tools to try between sessions alongside time to talk through painful memories and relationship dynamics. Angela pays attention to how past experiences shape current reactions and helps people build new responses. She offers therapy in English and provides sessions via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Therapy sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and services are provided within California.
Angela lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Angela works with
The areas below are the ones Angela selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 29 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand closeness, trust, and the ways past losses or abandonment affect present relationships. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and empathy. The therapist follows the client's lead, offers acceptance, and helps clarify goals and values to build confidence and direction.Choosing the best approach is a team effort. Angela will talk with the client about goals, symptoms, and what feels most helpful. Together they try methods, adjust as needed, and prioritize strategies that fit the client's life and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy or geographically spread people. Video calls let for face-to-face interaction when visual connection matters. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break or commute. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins, journaling-style reflection, or a way to continue skills practice between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and to apply new skills in everyday moments.
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