About Amber
Amber Sorsek is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma, self-esteem, and depression. She communicates plainly and works collaboratively with clients to set practical goals. Her background includes hospital social work, independent practice, and telehealth roles in addiction treatment and family advocacy.
She draws on trauma-informed care and ecological systems thinking to see how social and environmental factors affect a person.
Background and approach
That perspective helps her work with issues like attachment, abandonment, codependency, communication problems, and caregiver stress. Sessions emphasize identifying strengths, processing emotions, and choosing less harmful patterns of behavior. Amber uses a mix of evidence-based techniques in individual and couples work.
She uses problem-solving and solution-focused methods to address immediate concerns. She also integrates cognitive-behavioral strategies to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior. For trauma work she offers EMDR as one option and discusses how it fits each person's needs before proceeding.
In couples work she uses the Gottman Method framework to reduce conflict and rebuild emotional connection. Her overall stance is nonjudgmental and person-centered, aiming to create a collaborative process with each client. Amber practiced telehealth through the COVID-19 pandemic and later worked in addiction treatment via telehealth.
She completed her Master of Social Work at USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work and holds an LCSW. Her experience includes settings with hospitals, independent practice, and military family services in New Mexico and abroad.
How therapeutic techniques translate to online care
Amber routinely uses cognitive-behavioral methods to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors; this approach works well for anxiety, mood shifts, and stress management. She also uses brief solution-focused and problem-solving techniques to set clear, achievable steps when someone needs immediate relief from life pressures.When trauma is the focus, EMDR is presented as one possible option and discussed fully so the client can make an informed choice. The therapist and client decide together which methods fit best based on symptoms, goals, and comfort with different practices. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to each person's needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexible access. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging helps people process thoughts between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep continuity of care across locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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