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About Angela

Angela Pham, M.A., M.S, PhD-c, LPC has worked as a psychotherapist for over 9 years in Houston, TX and more recently, in Austin, TX treating individuals with issues involving trauma, DID, attachment, LGBTQIA, and race and cultural identity. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC #71854 – TX) trained in depth psychology and trauma.

Her primary focus when working with new clients is to create a safe space because she knows this yields trust and vulnerability. Angela’s attunement to clients, capacity for empathy, and years of professional training enables her to assume a holistic approach to therapy. She looks at what’s happening currently in the lives of clients and works with them to understand how the “there and then” (family of origin) has landed them in the “here and now” (current relationship, or personal struggles). She knows that what a clients says in therapy is as important as what is not being said. This sort of in-depth work is an invaluable investment in self and is done best over time and with proper pacing.

Angela believes that cultural competency is at the core of racial justice. She initiated a no cost multi-cultural group for women called Healing Hearts creating a safe space for women and minorities to discuss their experiences of misogyny, racism, homophobia, and polarization experienced within their family, among friends, and at work. Her work with marginalized communities includes the co-facilitation of a process group specifically for BIPOC individuals to explore race based traumatic stress (RBTS), and as founding member of Depth Discussions, a bi-monthly conversation for Pacifica Graduates that identify as Latinx. Angela serves as a committee member for REDI (Racial Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) tasked with decolonizing Houston Group Psychotherapy Society with membership of over 200 mental health professionals in Houston, TX. She also serves as an advisory board member working to advance racial justice within Houston Psychotherapy Group Society. She is a qualified administrator for the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) and consults with individuals and organizations on their diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

Education

Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA

  • PhD Candidate – Depth Psychology 

  • MA – Counseling Psychology (2013)

Texas A&M, Corpus Christi

  • MS – Geospatial Surveying Engineering (2008)

  • BS – Geographic Information Science (1999)

Training

  • International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD)

  • EMDR

  • Emotionally Focused Therapy (Couples)

  • Decolonizing Psychology

Professional Affiliations

  • Pacifica Graduate Institute Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Student Representative (2020-2021)

  • Racial Equity, Diversity and Inclusion committee member (2020-2021)

  • HGPS Advisory Board Member (2021-2023)