About Amy
Amy Creason is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Missouri who focuses on practical, goal-oriented therapy. She brings ten years of counseling experience and works with adults facing anxiety, stress, depression, addictions, and life transitions. Amy aims for clear, respectful conversations that help people make changes that matter to them.
She uses a partnership model in sessions. Amy listens first to understand a person's goals and challenges. Then she helps people build skills for coping, reduce overwhelming feelings, and try new ways of responding to stress and relationships.
Background and approach
Amy draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. She also uses dialectical behavior methods for managing intense emotions and mindfulness practices to calm attention and reduce reactivity. These tools are chosen to fit each person's situation and goals.
Sessions include practical exercises, homework between meetings, and conversational reflection. Amy also incorporates emotion-focused moments when relationship patterns or grief come up, helping people name feelings and make shifts in how they connect with others and themselves. People who come for help with parenting strain, caregiver stress, body image, or career pressure will find concrete strategies and steady support.
Amy combines skill-building with a warm, nonjudgmental stance so people can both cope better day to day and work toward longer-term change.
Approaches that guide online therapy
Amy uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based work to help people change habits of thinking and reduce stress. CBT involves identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing them with real-life experiments, and practicing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that can lower reactivity and improve focus.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy for people who need tools to manage intense emotions and strong urges. DBT provides clear skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving how people relate to others. Together these approaches give both short-term coping methods and longer-term skills building.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Amy will talk with each person about their goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan as needed. Clients help decide what feels most useful, and the work changes based on progress and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit varied schedules. Video works well for deeper conversations and skill demonstrations, phone calls can be a good fit for lower bandwidth or a quick check-in, and chat or messaging supports brief updates or homework review between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy daily life while keeping the focus on practical tools and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
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- ADHD
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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