About Amargo
Amargo Crenshaw is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 20 years of clinical experience. She provides a calm, respectful presence and aims to make the first step toward help feel simple and manageable. Her practice often centers on stress and anxiety alongside other life challenges people bring.
She works with adults who want practical tools and steady support as they face change. Amargo draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help people name unhelpful thinking and try different ways of responding.
Background and approach
She also uses solution-focused and motivational interviewing techniques to set clear, achievable goals. Trauma-focused ideas are part of her work when people need help processing difficult experiences. Sessions tend to focus on actionable skills - small experiments, new coping strategies, and clearer ways to communicate with others.
She emphasizes strengths and what is already working while addressing behaviors that get in the way. Those coping skills are applied to concerns like grief, addiction, family problems, intimacy issues, and career stress. Amargo has experience helping people manage mood conditions such as depression and bipolar symptoms and assisting those dealing with anger, abandonment, or attachment struggles.
She also supports people impacted by domestic violence, separation, blended family issues, and caregiver stress. She practices from Georgia and offers services in English. Her work accommodates different session formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit varied schedules and needs.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Amargo commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness therapy in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors; it is useful for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotion regulation, which can help with anger, grief, and day-to-day stress.She also draws on motivational interviewing to help people clarify goals and build their own reasons for change. That approach is collaborative and works well when someone is weighing difficult choices or trying to change habits like substance use. Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work together - the therapist will help choose approaches based on each person’s needs, goals, and preferences and adjust them as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a walk or a short break and use less bandwidth. Live chat and text are useful for quick check-ins, homework follow-up, or steady support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives and keep consistent momentum toward goals.
Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does this therapist help with?
What is the therapist's general style in sessions?
How much clinical experience does she have?
What credentials and location apply to this therapist?
In which languages are sessions offered and are international clients supported?
Which session formats are available?
How are fees and billing handled?
What should I do to begin working together?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.