Ryan Knapp, MA

 

~ Accepting new clients ~

Telephone: (562) 322-1842
Email: ryanknapptherapy@gmail.com
Pronouns: he/him

Office Hours: Please call or email to inquire about scheduling


License: Registered Associate Marriage & Family Therapist, #AMFT125417
Supervisor: Rulik Perla, #43965

Fees: $140. Contact for sliding scale availability.

Facing the unknowns at the heart of change takes courage, curiosity, creativity and trust. I am grateful for the chance to support anyone in this deeply personal endeavor. I believe every person has the capacity to heal oneself, but often the systems, histories and circumstances we navigate pull us away from this grace. Therapy is a chance to replenish, and in some cases, discover these inner resources.

I received my masters degree in Community Mental Health from the California Institute of Integral Studies. I take a trauma-informed, collaborative and relational approach. My therapeutic style draws from person-centered therapy, psychodynamics, mindfulness, narrative and play therapy. I believe warmth, curiosity and honesty are vital aspects of transformative therapy.

I have a particular affinity for working with creative people; couples; people of mixed-race; LGBTQ+ people; those whose identities place them in the margins of dominant discourses; and people who are curious about how their past plays out in the present. That said, I hope and believe that people from all races, sexualities, ages and genders would find in me a sensitive and thoughtful attendant to the changes they long for.

AREAS OF CLINICAL WORK

  • Relationship issues

  • Self-expression

  • Trauma

  • Intimacy

  • Struggles around marginalized identities

  • Neurodiversity

  • Communication

  • Unwanted habits

  • Self Advocacy

  • Familial Struggles

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

CLINICAL APPROACH

My approach is relational, psychodynamic and incorporates some mindfulness and somatic techniques. My lens is trauma informed, feminist and multicultural.

  • Relational

  • Psychodynamic

  • Feminist

  • Existential

  • Mindfulness

  • Somatic