About Amy
Amy Drake is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She brings a calm, nonjudgmental approach to sessions and encourages honest conversation about difficult feelings. She offers a straightforward style that centers on listening first.
Amy helps people name worries and notice what matters most to them. She supports clients as they try small, practical steps to feel less overwhelmed. In sessions she may draw on cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking patterns.
Background and approach
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy techniques to help people accept hard emotions while moving toward meaningful goals. Client-Centered methods shape the way she creates a respectful, person-focused space. Amy has five years of professional experience and holds LCSW and LICSW credentials.
She is licensed in Texas and works with adults on a variety of concerns including relationships, trauma, addiction, self-esteem, and career stress. People who contact her can expect clear, collaborative planning. Amy helps set manageable goals and checks in about what is helpful.
She aims to make therapy practical and usable in everyday life.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Amy often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice their thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. ACT focuses on values and small actions that move someone toward the life they want, which can be helpful for anxiety and stress.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify patterns of thinking that contribute to worry and low mood. CBT breaks problems into manageable steps and offers concrete tools to test new ways of thinking and behaving.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try methods that fit your situation, and adjust the plan based on what helps. This collaborative process aims to match techniques to what matters most to the client.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging support brief touchpoints, homework review, and ongoing encouragement between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Washington
- Languages
- English
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