About Abraham
Abraham Knowles is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 25 years helping people in Florida. He uses straightforward, person-focused care to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and problems related to relationships and parenting. He earned master’s degrees in Social Work and Public Health from the University of South Florida in 1995.
Abraham’s career has included work as a school social worker, roles in community mental health, substance abuse services, and home health.
Background and approach
That breadth informs how he approaches everyday struggles. In sessions he listens and asks practical questions to clarify goals. He combines Client-Centered techniques with Cognitive Behavioral methods to help people recognize patterns and try new behaviors.
Motivational Interviewing is used when people want support making changes, and Trauma-Focused ideas are used for those coping with past harm. He has provided individual and group counseling, case management, and has experience addressing addiction, grief, sleep and eating concerns, mood disorders, panic, and PTSD-related issues. Abraham also helps with feelings of emptiness, isolation, identity questions, and finding life purpose.
Outside work he enjoys reading, movies, and theater, and spends time with his wife, children, and grandson. He has volunteered with his church youth group for over 20 years and brings that community perspective into his work. Abraham aims for clear steps clients can follow between sessions.
He works with people to build confidence, reduce distress, and improve daily functioning through steady, practical efforts.
Approaches that guide online work
Abraham uses Client-Centered Therapy to focus on each person’s experience and goals. That approach means sessions begin with listening and reflecting so the person’s priorities guide the work. It helps when someone needs support being heard and understood.He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. CBT helps people learn practical skills to change unhelpful thinking, reduce anxiety, manage mood swings, and address sleep or eating concerns. Motivational Interviewing is used when people want help finding the drive to make changes and set realistic steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Abraham works collaboratively to choose methods that fit a person’s needs, goals, and preferences, and he adjusts the plan as progress is made. He often blends methods so sessions match what’s most helpful in a given week.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video lets people work face to face at a distance, phone works well for quieter needs or limited bandwidth, chat can be used for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to meet regularly and keep momentum toward goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- 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