Dr. Angela Buffington

Dr. Angela Buffington is a California psychologist who brings 15 years of practice to her work with adults. She focuses on helping people who struggle with anxiety, depression, anger, addiction, and difficult life changes. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at making the first steps feel manageable.

She uses approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and practice new responses. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas also appear in her work, helping people clarify what matters to them and take steps toward those values. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and motivational interviewing are tools she draws on when emotion regulation or change motivation are central concerns.

Sessions are practical and skill-focused. She helps people build habits for calmer reactions, stronger boundaries, and clearer communication. Work often includes short behavioral experiments, breathing and grounding practices, and stepwise problem solving that can be used between visits.

Her background includes extensive clinical work with adults facing mood disorders, trauma and abuse, relationship struggles, parenting strain, and career stress. The work often attends to attachment, codependency, and family-of-origin patterns that keep problems repeating.

Dr. Buffington asks people to think of therapy as a collaborative process. She helps clients set simple goals, track progress, and adjust strategies when something isn’t working. People who want to start are guided through a short questionnaire and scheduling step to make the first appointment easier.

How therapy approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people name what matters to them and take concrete steps toward those values. It uses small, practical exercises to change how someone responds to difficult thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with behavior changes and short experiments. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, anger, and mood symptoms. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication through teachable skills and practice.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and daily routine. That choice can shift over time as progress is tracked and new priorities emerge.

Confirm current session options before booking, since formats are not specified in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow focused skill practice between meetings. It can also allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight or phone-based conversations when video is not practical. A clinician will discuss which session rhythm and format will best support the client's goals.