About Amber
Amber Benamou is a licensed clinical social worker with 11 years of practice in Florida. She earned a Master of Social Work, summa cum laude, from Barry University. Amber brings experience from community mental health, addiction care, and work with children and families.
She is direct and warm in session and sometimes uses light humor when it fits the moment. She helps people manage stress and anxiety and supports those facing depression, grief, anger, and trauma.
Background and approach
Amber draws on clients' strengths and works alongside them to build practical strategies. Sessions focus on small, doable steps that fit into everyday life. Her background includes work with parenting concerns and with teens, and she has experience supporting parents of children on the autism spectrum.
She says strong rapport matters more than any set of techniques, and she aims to build trust early in the work. Amber uses a mix of client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques. That means she listens first, then helps people try specific tools and experiments to change patterns that cause distress.
People come to her for help with family conflict, self-esteem, career stress, coping with life changes, and substance-related concerns. Her approach is collaborative and practical, aimed at increasing coping skills and resilience over time.
How Amber’s approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes the person's own goals and pace. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps people make choices that feel right for them. This approach suits concerns like family stress, self-esteem, and grief where being heard is the first step.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing strong emotions by teaching concrete techniques people can use between sessions.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm. These practices can help with stress, anger, and intrusive thoughts by providing tools to slow down and respond rather than react.
Amber treats the choice of approach as a collaboration. She will talk with each person about their goals and try methods that match those aims. Together they review what helps and adjust the plan as needed so the work fits the person's life and preferences.
Online sessions make this collaborative work more flexible. Video calls let therapy feel like an in-person meeting when seeing facial cues matters. Phone sessions or voice-only meetings can be better when bandwidth is limited or being on camera is hard. Live chat and text-based messaging enable brief check-ins, quick coaching between sessions, and ongoing support without scheduling a full call. These options aim to make it easier to practice new skills and stay connected to the therapeutic process.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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