Amy, a Senior Therapist at our practice, believes that healthy, supportive relationships form the basis of every person’s development and success in life. However, trust can be hard for us when past relationships haven’t felt safe. Amy offers children, teens and adults a calm, consistent, non-judgmental space to find their voice, navigate complex challenges, and harness their capacity for growth and healing.With five years of experience working with children and parents utilizing child-centered play therapy, family therapy, therapeutic groups, and individual therapy, Amy believes in the transformational power of therapy and has witnessed many children and their biological, foster and/or adoptive parents achieve safe, stable and healthy family relationships. Amy holds a Master’s Degree in Counseling from West Virginia University, and she has deepened her expertise through training in multiple attachment-based therapy approaches as well as trauma therapy modalities such as EMDR. She also has extensive experience helping individuals with anxiety, depression, self-worth, ADD/ADHD, sleep disruption, body image, bullying, peer and romantic relationships, suicidal thinking, self-harm, physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, grief, co-parenting, substance abuse, self-development, and boundaries.
Amy’s training includes:
- Theraplay
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
- Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI)
- Family Systems Therapy
- Sand Tray Therapy
- Child Centered Play Therapy
- Child Parent Psychotherapy