About Amy
Amy Oxendine is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in North Carolina who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship concerns. She also supports people facing ADHD, grief, trauma and abuse, addiction, and life changes. Amy brings a warm, motivating presence to sessions and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
She uses a mix of approaches to fit each person’s needs. Sessions often include clear problem-solving, skills practice, and conversations that help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
Amy draws on client-centered methods to follow the person's pace and priorities. Before independent practice she worked in a range of social work settings including hospitals, public schools, group homes, child protective services, and personal mental health agencies. That variety shaped her ability to adapt plans to real life demands and caregiver roles.
Amy has seven years of clinical experience working with adults and school-aged clients, and she has experience with veteran-related concerns. She aims to help people set realistic goals and build small, steady changes that add up over time. Her sessions tend to be straightforward and goal-focused.
People who prefer practical tools, clear steps, and a collaborative tone often find this approach helpful. Amy emphasizes strengths while working with the concrete challenges someone brings to therapy.
How Amy’s Approaches Work Online
Amy integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy into online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Client-centered work emphasizes listening, empathy, and adapting the pace and goals to what matters most to each person.She may also use Mindfulness Therapy tools to help people notice bodily tension and racing thoughts in the moment, then practice simple breath and grounding techniques. These approaches aim to build skills people can use between sessions for stress, sleep problems, or emotional flare-ups.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Amy will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try tools together, and adjust methods based on what helps. The aim is teamwork rather than a single fixed method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed, and chat or text can support short updates, tracking progress, or when typing feels easier. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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