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About Angela

For the past twenty years, Angela McKinney has been transforming people's lives, including her own, as a practitioner, educator, and somatic guide. Angela is an addiction recovery expert and speaker on habits, decision-making, and continuous growth. Her 3-Step mind-body system, The Untangle Method, combines research in the neurobiology of trauma with a creative approach to improving the quality of our lives.

Angela has engineered this method by posing and researching such questions: How can our fragility become reshaped into resources of resilience? How can we become safe enough to engage our lives from a place of authenticity and help our bodies, minds, and spirits receive successes (both large and small)? How can we negotiate the space between the part of us that is terrified of change and the part of us that is hungry for change to build an integrated, whole system? 

Untangle & Thrive is led by Angela McKinney, and her core commitment to herself and to you is to become the change you wish to seek from the world; happy, healthy, and thriving. In addition to being a certified coach and registered financial advisor, Angela received her clinical psychology degree from Antioch University and hopes to begin a Ph.D. in Integrative Therapy in 2022.

Her forthcoming book, Untangle: How to Create Big Possibilities Through Small Changes, will guide readers through this process with accessible, sensitive lessons and candid stories. To read the preface, click here. Through her podcasts, international retreats, recovery programs, online courses, and work with private clients, Angela’s expertise and personal experience support others to realize their best life.

To learn more about her work, visit the welcome page.

We Believe

Truth, honesty, integrity, reliability, communication, and tender care are the foundations of who we are and how we work. We collaborate with our clients- families and therapeutic teams- to anticipate, address, and adapt to our client’s needs.

We envision a world where every human being has the financial and emotional freedom to live life to the fullest. We hold space for the big picture to emerge. We focus on intentional connection and solutions. We are here for you.

Our mission is to provide people with life skills to emerge from hiding and embark on successful living, making this world a better and safer place.

What are some of your company’s guiding philosophies?

We believe that no matter what happened to us, we can gather skills to thrive. Drawing on over 20 years of experience, Untangle & Thrive has facilitated the development and implementation of more than 100 recovery programs across the country and helped guide hundreds of clients from disenfranchised individuals to leaders at the highest level of corporations.

We believe in everyone’s responsibility to give back. We offer free untangling workshops internationally to empower people to find their voices and use them for good. We create a structure of safety for all people to feel supported, seen, and encouraged. We realize one person or one organization can’t be all things, so we connect our clients to other services, therapies, and programs to support their unique needs.

We believe that working hard on ourselves doesn’t have to be rigid or extreme- “fixing yourself” in unhelpful, punitive ways that can create survival living. We are biologically wired and psychologically driven to do 3 things in life: survive, belong, and become. If the majority of our time is surviving, we suffocate our life force- keeping us from belonging purposefully and becoming who we are meant to be.

How can I get in touch with you?

The best way is to email us at hello@untangleandthrive.com. We are constantly striving to up our game and we would love to hear from you. If there is anything we can do to improve your experience with us, please let us know.

We aim to respond to emails within 48 hours.