Hello! My name is Abraham Knowles and am a licensed clinical social worker with over 25 years of experience in Florida. I earned my Master’s degrees in Social Work and Public Health from the University of South Florida in 1995. I have since worked as a school social worker and also have worked in a variety of other fields including community mental health, substance abuse, and home health.
I have worked with clients in a variety of modalities including individual, group, and family counseling as well as case management. I draw from a variety of counseling approaches but mostly cognitive behavioral and humanistic/ client centered therapies. I have helped clients with many presenting problems, especially depression, anxiety, and trauma.
Outside of my work as a therapist/ social worker, I enjoy reading, movies, and theater as well as spending time with my wife (married 31 years) son (25), daughter (21), and grandson (4) at their various activities. I have been a volunteer with my church’s youth group for over 20 years.
It takes courage to seek support to work through difficult issues and I’m proud of you for taking that first, very important step. I love listening to and supporting people through difficult circumstances and working with them to develop and implement a plan for improvement. I would love to work with you to provide support and assistance as you work toward symptom reduction, confidence, improved relationships, life purpose, and positive change.
Additional areas of focus: Addictions, LGBT, Relationship issues, Family conflicts, Grief, Intimacy-related issues, Eating disorders, Sleeping disorders, Anger management, Bipolar disorder, Coping with life changes, Compassion fatigue, ADHD, Abandonment, Communication problems, Dissociation, Emptiness, Family Problems, Isolation / loneliness, Life purpose, Mood disorders , Panic disorder and panic attacks, Post-traumatic stress, Self-Harm, Sexual Assault and Abuse, Social anxiety and phobia, Young Adult Issues
Clinical approaches: Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing, Trauma-Focused Therapy
FL LCSW SW5307
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Abraham is professional, knowledgeable, informative and caring. I have worked with a number of therapists over the years and he stands out as exceptional.
Written on Mar 08, 2024 after therapy with Abraham for 3 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, coping with life changes, and adhd
I have been very impressed with Abraham's help and with his listening and care, as well as his timely response and using several methods in order to support me. I would highly recommend him as a therapist and think that he has been able to help identify some issues that I need to work on and really provide different ways and modalities to work through them. I think you would be very pleased to work with him. Best of luck in your journey.
Written on Sep 06, 2023 after therapy with Abraham for 2 months on issues concerning family conflicts, trauma and abuse, parenting issues, and adhd
He is SO PROFESSIONAL! SOMETIMES I think he cares more about me than I do. He's really helped me get into the process. He's wondeful
Written on Jul 04, 2023 after therapy with Abraham for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, self esteem, compassion fatigue, and adhd
Lovely, professional and well prepared therapist. Would easily recommend.
Written on Dec 04, 2022 after therapy with Abraham for 4 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, eating disorders, parenting issues, self esteem, anger management, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and adhd
He is a great listener and responds to messages in very timely manner. Abraham also do a very good job checking on how everything is going with me.
Written on Sep 13, 2022 after therapy with Abraham for 3 weeks on issues concerning addictions, relationship issues, and intimacy-related issues
He listens and he has helped through this rough time.
Written on Aug 22, 2022 after therapy with Abraham for 1 year and 1 month on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, and sleeping disorders