- Years in practice
- 29
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Angela
Angela Knight is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with 29 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or relationship struggles. Parents looking for practical ways to manage parenting challenges will find a calm, steady presence during sessions.
She works in plain language and focuses on building useful skills. Sessions often include teaching tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to manage thoughts, emotions, and behavior.
Background and approach
Emotionally-focused methods are used when the goal is to strengthen emotional connection and understanding. Angela believes clients know their stories best and brings a collaborative attitude to therapy. She helps people identify strengths, set small goals, and practice new ways of coping.
That approach also supports work on self-esteem, motivation, grief, and intimacy-related concerns. Her experience spans trauma, addictions, ADHD, and a wide range of life transitions. Angela also supports issues related to adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, and chronic illness.
She draws on attachment-based ideas when exploring how early relationships affect current patterns. People can expect straightforward conversation, concrete strategies, and steady support. Sessions aim to leave clients with tools they can use between appointments.
The overall focus is practical change grounded in respect for each person’s experience.
What Angela works with
Everything Angela lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Angela helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Angela lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and patterns. In a session this can mean noticing how you form connections, naming needs, and practicing new ways to ask for support. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior; it offers clear exercises to reframe unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors that reduce anxiety or low mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people improve emotional awareness and respond to feelings in healthier ways, which can be useful for intimacy-related concerns and managing strong emotions.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with you about your goals and preferences, then suggest methods to try. Over the first few sessions you can see what feels most helpful and adjust the plan together so it fits your needs.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video allows face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone works when internet or bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging can support ongoing coaching between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work between sessions.
Questions people ask about Angela
What concerns does Angela address in therapy?
She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy-related issues, trauma and abuse, addictions, ADHD, parenting challenges, grief, and related concerns.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her approach is collaborative and straightforward, focusing on skills teaching and building on strengths to create practical change over time.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 29 years of professional work experience as a licensed clinician in California.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - LMFT - practicing in California.
Which languages are offered for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to connect.
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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