About Amy
Amy Brant is a licensed marriage and family therapist with three decades of experience. She helps people who are stressed, anxious, grieving, facing addiction, or coping with big life changes. Her approach is practical and focused on what a person needs right now.
Amy began her career as a teacher for students with special needs and later worked as a public school guidance counselor. She earned her LMFT - licensed marriage and family therapist - and shifted toward clinical work because family history often shapes adult choices and behavior.
Background and approach
That background gives her a long view of development and relationships. Sessions are collaborative and shaped to each person. Sometimes she uses shorter, solution-focused work to target immediate problems.
Other times she uses longer, skills-based approaches to change patterns and build new habits. Amy draws on several well-known methods including acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused work, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques, and skills training that comes from dialectical behavior ideas. She listens first, then offers tools and plans that fit the person in front of her.
She practices from Indiana and conducts online sessions by video, phone, chat, or text messaging. Amy aims to help people find steady ways to manage anxiety, repair relationships, and move toward goals that matter to them.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Amy commonly uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people identify unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors. CBT is practical and works well for anxiety, low mood, and stress by teaching concrete skills to change patterns.She also uses attachment-based methods to look at how early relationships shape current interactions. That work helps people understand trust, closeness, and repeated relationship patterns so they can make different choices.
Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the process. Amy will work together with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and she adjusts plans as progress is tracked and needs change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let therapists and clients use visual cues and screen materials for exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or people prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, skill practice, and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work when in-person meetings are difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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