Dr. Angela Buffington

Dr. Angela Buffington is a California-based psychologist who uses mindfulness as a central part of her work. She brings 15 years of experience helping people who feel stuck by stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, or difficult relationship patterns. Dr. Buffington speaks in a calm, direct way so people can start small and notice real shifts.

She focuses on practical skills you can use between sessions. That includes grounding and mindfulness practices to steady strong feelings. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and DBT-informed skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.

Her clinical focus covers a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, parenting strain, anger, career stress, bipolar mood concerns, and ADHD. She also supports people working through family of origin issues, codependency, communication problems, and life transitions like divorce or midlife reassessment.

Dr. Buffington likes to help people identify their values and build on existing strengths. Sessions aim to improve day-to-day coping, reduce overwhelm, and create clearer choices about relationships and goals. She explains tools plainly and practices them with clients so they feel usable outside the therapy room.

If you are considering therapy, she asks that you take a first step by sharing what feels most urgent. The work is collaborative and paced to match each person's needs.

How evidence-based approaches translate to online care

Mindfulness Therapy focuses on paying calm attention to the present moment. It teaches short practices that reduce reactivity and help people sit with difficult feelings without getting swept away. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while accepting uncomfortable thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches simple experiments to test and change unhelpful thinking patterns.

Choosing the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will discuss what feels most pressing and try methods that match your goals and preferences. Over time the plan can shift based on what proves most useful in real life, so the work is collaborative and adaptive.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can still make sessions easier to fit into a busy week. It can reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, and let people practice skills between sessions in their everyday settings. Licensed professionals can guide the use of mindfulness, ACT, and CBT techniques so people can apply them to stress, relationships, mood, and life changes.