About Abraham
Abraham Knowles is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 25 years of experience in Florida. He uses a person-centered style and practical techniques to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and ADHD-related struggles. He trained at the University of South Florida and holds master’s degrees in Social Work and Public Health from 1995.
Over the years he has worked in schools, community mental health, substance abuse programs, and home health settings.
Background and approach
That variety informs his plainspoken approach to care. Sessions focus on building trust, clarifying goals, and practicing skills that fit daily life. Abraham often draws on client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral tools to address mood, sleep, and relationship concerns.
He also brings trauma-focused ideas when past harm affects present functioning. He has supported people with depression, panic, grief, addictions, and a broad range of mood and stress problems. He pays attention to practical steps clients can try between sessions, like behavior experiments, communication practice, and planning for emotion regulation.
Abraham values collaboration. He listens first, then helps people set short-term goals and simple plans they can follow. Outside work he enjoys reading, theater, and family time, and he has volunteered with a church youth group for many years.
People who choose him can expect direct conversation, clear strategies, and steady support while working toward better routines, clearer goals, and improved relationships.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Client-centered therapy puts the person’s experience first. The therapist listens, reflects, and helps clients name their goals so sessions follow what matters most. This approach helps when people need steady support, clarity, or help deciding what to work on next.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Abraham uses simple exercises and experiments to shift unhelpful patterns, which can reduce panic, lift mood, and improve sleep and day-to-day functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. He will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences, and he adjusts those methods as progress is made. That collaboration helps ensure sessions feel useful and focused.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are good when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets people send updates or ask quick questions between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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