About Amber
Amber Lynn Dicker is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in South Carolina who helps people manage anxiety, depression, trauma, and related concerns. She focuses on real problems like stress, self-esteem, relationship strain, and career worries. The tone in sessions is practical and goal-minded.
Amber emphasizes small, manageable steps so clients can see progress. She uses straightforward methods to show how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. That clarity makes coping skills easier to learn and apply.
Background and approach
Amber blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing to build skills for distress tolerance and emotion regulation. Her work addresses trauma and abuse alongside mood challenges such as bipolar disorder and disruptive mood dysregulation. She also supports people dealing with ADHD, anger, grief around abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, and caregiver stress.
Communication problems, control issues, isolation, and body image concerns are part of her practice too. Sessions cover both immediate coping tools and longer-term pattern change. Amber helps clients break down unhelpful thinking, practice new behaviors, and find motivation to try different choices.
She aims for a collaborative process where goals are clear and progress is measurable. With nine years of clinical experience, Amber draws on a variety of techniques rather than a single method. Sessions are offered in English and are arranged to fit each person’s schedule.
She works with adults seeking practical help for everyday emotional challenges and life transitions.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Amber commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which helps with anxiety, depression, and stress. DBT teaches concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships, useful for anger, impulsivity, and mood regulation.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amber will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then suggest methods to try. That decision is collaborative and can change over time as needs evolve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction for skill teaching and role play. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or screens are hard to use. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching, and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try different ways of working to see what helps most.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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