About me

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.

My approach through the BetterHelp platform involves individual sessions and messaging with the teenager, conjoint sessions with the parent and child to improve relationships, and guidance to the parent through messaging and sessions to help best parent and improve the relationship. To best make improvements, I keep what that the teen shares confidential although I will encourage the adolescent to share important issues and will directly share any serious life-threatening or caregiver abuse/ neglect issues.

Outside of my work as a therapist/ social worker, I enjoy reading, movies, and theater and 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 and your teen 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 your child and you to provide support and assistance as you both work toward symptom reduction, confidence, improved relationships, life purpose, and positive change.


Specialties

  • Stress, Anxiety
  • Trauma, Abuse
  • Parenting issues
  • Self esteem, Motivation
  • Depression
Also experienced in:
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 , Read more...

Clinical approaches:
Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing, Trauma-Focused Therapy

Years of Experience: 25

Services offered


  • Messaging

  • Live Chat

  • Phone

  • Video

Licensing

FL LCSW SW5307


Reviews

These quotes represent just a few of the many positive reviews that we have received for Abraham Knowles. We don't pay anyone to provide their review and they are all made voluntarily. Some people's experience receiving therapy with Teen Counseling might be different.

Written on Mar 14, 2024 after therapy with Abraham for 1 year and 2 months

He really helped me with my son and support him. Very grateful to Abraham.

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

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 Sep 06, 2023 after therapy with Abraham for 2 months on issues concerning family conflicts, trauma and abuse, parenting issues, 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 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

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 Jun 24, 2023 after therapy with Abraham for 3 months

Amazing therapist for my son. I see and feel a huge difference. I and my son have came along way since he’s been attending sessions with Mr. Knowles.

Written on Feb 12, 2023 after therapy with Abraham for 3 months

Thank you so so much Abraham, you are making such a difference in my son's life!

Written on Jan 24, 2023 after therapy with Abraham for 7 months

Abraham is very professional, bonded well with our teen.
He is very patient with all of us at our monthly parent/child meeting.

Highly recommend Abraham.

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

Lovely, professional and well prepared therapist. Would easily recommend.

Written on Sep 13, 2022 after therapy with Abraham for 3 weeks on issues concerning addictions, relationship issues, and intimacy-related issues

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 Aug 22, 2022 after therapy with Abraham for 1 year and 1 month on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, and sleeping disorders

He listens and he has helped through this rough time.

Written on Aug 06, 2022 after therapy with Abraham for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, addictions, intimacy-related issues, sleeping disorders, and self esteem

Still getting to know him and teencounseling.com as well, but I have the impression that he and the platform does a great job. Abraham is very willing to listen and reads all my texts. He is empathetic and non-judgmental in the way he doesn’t beat me down over my problems I share with him. I feel very safe sharing my thoughts with him knowing that honesty is key.

Written on Jun 25, 2022 after therapy with Abraham for 3 weeks

Working with Abraham is so relaxing helpful . I fell like talking with a best friend or brother he s a very good listener and pay attention on every single details and words he give good idea and solutions i ve start with him weeks ago but i weight his session weekly

Written on May 10, 2022 after therapy with Abraham for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, and eating disorders

Abraham has all of the relaxation of speaking to a regular person, while ticking all the right official boxes of addressing your issues and not just chit chatting. It is a very comfortable way to make progress at your own pace without feeling obligated. Also I don't feel judged whiled speaking with him.

Written on May 01, 2022 after therapy with Abraham for 7 months

Counselor Knowles’ is top notch. Kind, unwavering, firm but caring. Exactly the type of help my son needs to cope & overcome his OCD.

Written on Mar 12, 2022 after therapy with Abraham for 2 weeks

He's very knowledgeable and I feel like he knows my concerns and is actively working to help me.

Written on Nov 06, 2021 after therapy with Abraham for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, eating disorders, and sleeping disorders

Thank you for be my only support in all this

Written on Aug 13, 2021 after therapy with Abraham for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, parenting issues, anger management, and coping with life changes

Great so far. Approachable, effective & quite structured. Recap at the start of each session advantageous for jogging my memory. Thank you thus far Abraham. I look forward to the timely process and ultimately growth and progress.

Written on Dec 18, 2020 after therapy with Abraham for 2 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, sleeping disorders, self esteem, anger management, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue

I really like Abraham

Written on Oct 23, 2020 after therapy with Abraham for 2 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, sleeping disorders, and self esteem

I would recommend Abraham without a second thought. He's supportive, even in bad situations, he's empathetic and has a good sense of what's going on even when not communicating.

Written on Aug 02, 2020 after therapy with Abraham for 3 weeks on issues concerning intimacy-related issues, and self esteem

Abraham´s kind and understanding personality, mixed with experience and professionalism makes me confident in his ability to help me. I wouldn’t hesitate recommending him to any one of my friends or family.

Written on Jul 21, 2020 after therapy with Abraham for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, and grief

I made connection with Abraham from day one. He showed me empathy which extremely important to me during my time of mourning.

Work with me!