Amy Phelps , LPC

Amy Phelps is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and clinical supervisor with 18 years of clinical experience. She blends evidence-based methods, clinical intuition, and a holistic appreciation for mental health to offer practical, client-centered care. With a board certification in clinical supervision, Amy emphasizes ongoing learning, transparency, and accountability as foundational elements of long-term growth and healing.

Her therapeutic style is grounded in person-centered and trauma-informed principles while drawing from Cognitive Behavioral, family systems, solution-focused modalities, and other proven frameworks. She favors a flexible, individualized approach, maintaining smaller caseloads to better tailor treatment and foster therapeutic trust. As a clinical director and mentor, she has formalized leadership roles aimed at supporting other clinicians and improving community-level outcomes through local court partnerships and team-based initiatives.

Amy's personal experience in recovery informs her work; she looks forward to celebrating eleven years of sobriety in November 2025, and sees that journey as an asset in guiding clients and staff through recovery processes. Former clients have noted that she is attentive, nurturing, flexible, knowledgeable and direct in communication. Her practice focuses on trauma recovery, relationships, addiction, mood and anxiety concerns, family and parenting challenges, and a broad range of other life stressors and identity-related matters. Amy invites prospective clients to explore whether her approach aligns with their goals.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care with Amy Phelps

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and take committed action toward meaningful goals while learning to sit with difficult thoughts and feelings. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and life transitions.

Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early and adult relationships shape emotional patterns and connection styles, helping clients improve intimacy, communication, and coping after loss, abandonment, or relationship strain.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the work. Amy Phelps collaborates with each person to identify methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and adjusts techniques over time so therapy remains practical and relevant. Licensed professionals and therapists often combine approaches to meet complex or changing needs, and Amy brings that same flexibility to treatment planning.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for busy schedules, caregiving responsibilities, and geographical limitations. These formats make it easier to maintain consistency in care, access support from home, and choose the communication style that feels most comfortable while working toward meaningful change.