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Angela Amias, LCSW, is a relationship therapist whose work focuses on how childhood experiences shape our ability to create healthy, intimate relationships in adulthood. She cofounded Alchemy of Love, a platform devoted to helping people with painful childhood experiences create more fulfilling relationships. She’s also the creator of Ask Angela, a relationship advice column and podcast focused on love after trauma, where she responds to readers’ questions with practical, trauma-informed guidance.

With Daniel Boscaljon, Angela founded of the Institute for Trauma Informed Relationships, which provides clinical education and training for therapists seeking to integrate a trauma-informed perspective into their work with individuals and couples.

Angela began her career working at one of only a handful of clinics in the United States that specialized in treating adopted children who had experienced profound attachment trauma. As a trauma-focused family therapist, her role was to help adoptive parents understand the inner world of their child, while also helping the children learn how to trust again so they could form meaningful relationships.

When she later began working with adults at a holistic healing center, supporting clients with depression, anxiety, and relationship challenges, she expected that her background in attachment trauma would be less relevant.

What she discovered was the opposite.

To her surprise, the struggles her adult clients described in their romantic relationships echoed what she had witnessed at the trauma clinic. Many of her clients appeared to be carrying the same kinds of core wounds from childhood — though often in less severe forms — shaped by experiences such as criticism, emotional distance, or a lack of attunement.

This realization led Angela to recognize that people do not have to experience severe “Capital T” trauma to be deeply affected by childhood experiences. Subtle but meaningful relational dynamics — such as a lack of parental attention, frequent criticism, or the rejection of one’s authentic self — can shape how we relate to ourselves and others well into adulthood.

Over time, this understanding became central to her work. In her clinical experience with hundreds of individuals and couples, she has consistently seen that relationship struggles in adulthood are deeply connected to earlier experiences.

This insight informed the development of Trauma Informed Relationship Counseling for Individuals and Couples, a model that helps clients understand the connection between their childhood experiences, what they learned about relationships as a result, and the challenges they face in their adult relationships.

Her work with clients also informed the development of the Five Relationship Archetypes, which she created with Daniel Boscaljon. This model reflects the different ways that childhood relational patterns shape adult relationships, based on the messages we internalize about ourselves and how we need to be in order to maintain connection with others.

Angela’s work is further informed by her training and experience across multiple areas of relationship support. She has worked as a discernment counselor, helping couples on the brink of divorce decide whether to separate or attempt repair, and as a certified divorce mediator, supporting individuals and couples through the complexities of separation with greater clarity and care.

In addition to her background in attachment trauma, Angela has specialized training in therapeutic writing and journaling as tools for trauma recovery, emotional healing, and personal growth. Her approach integrates creativity and healing, reflecting her belief in the importance of honoring our lived experience as part of the healing process.

Angela holds a Master’s degree in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute (2025) and a Master’s of Social Work from the University of Iowa (2009).

Her work has been featured in publications including Today, Oprah, Cosmopolitan, Well + Good, and Forbes. On the topic of relationships, she’s been a contributing writer for Inc. and Fatherly. As a trauma-focused practitioner, she’s a contributing author of the Clinical EFT Handbook. 

Angela is also a mixed media artist. Her artwork has been exhibited in galleries across the United States and published in journals and magazines. She is also the co-creator of the Faces of the Divine Feminine Oracle.

Born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, Angela now lives in Cheyenne, Wyoming. On sunny days, you can find her cozied up with a book or hiking in the mountains with Daniel.

Her artwork can be found here.