Prior to entering the counseling field, Amy spent 25 years working in education, primarily at the middle school level, first as a teacher, then as Assistant Dean. From her education career, Amy developed a breadth of experience and knowledge in adolescence and adolescent development. She has interests in working with teens, families, and adults who are facing issues of identity development, academic stress, and transitions, attention disorders, mood disorders, anxiety, and depression. She has also worked to support the mental health of many LGBTQIA+ youth and their families, and has experience supporting neurodivergent individuals, honoring their unique strengths and challenges. Amy is equipped to assist clients, teens, and couples with both short-term and ongoing mental health challenges such as suicidal ideation, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, panic disorders, self-injurious behaviors, and substance misuse.
Amy’s approach is warm, collaborative, and relational, and she draws from mindfulness- based, somatic, humanistic, and emotionally focused therapies. She is also IFS- informed, integrating Internal Family Systems principles to help clients develop greater self-understanding and compassion for all of their parts. Committed to practicing with cultural respect, Amy aims to create a welcoming and equitable space for all. She acknowledges that each client comes to therapy with a unique story and set of circumstances and collaboratively works to recognize troubling thoughts, emotions, and memories to interrupt patterns in order to promote health and healing, increase resilience, and facilitate different choices.
In her free time, Amy enjoys active time outside to maintain mind-body wellness. In the winter, you can find her Nordic skiing. In the summer she loves to work in her garden, spend time on rivers rafting, and camp with her family and friends. Being a mom to two boys is one of her greatest rewards.