About Amy
Amy Matthews is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 39 years of experience. She draws on decades of hands-on work to help people facing anxiety, stress, relationship strain, grief, and other concerns. She began her career in Pennsylvania, spending many years as a high school counselor while also running a independent practice.
After relocating to Florida she continued in independent practice, working with adults and maintaining a broad clinical focus.
Background and approach
Her long career gives her experience with a wide range of life issues and transitions. Amy uses a mix of well-known approaches to match each person's needs. She favors practical conversations that help people notice patterns, try different behaviors, and rebuild connections with others.
Humor and straightforward talk are part of her style when appropriate. Clients can expect a warm, nonjudgmental presence and someone who will listen closely. Amy emphasizes collaboration and helps people set realistic steps they can try between sessions.
She also draws on her own life experience alongside formal training to shape the work she does. Her areas of focus include anxiety, depression, parenting and family concerns, addictions, trauma and grief, self-esteem and body image, intimacy and relationship problems, and attention-related struggles.
Amy offers phone and video sessions as well as live chat and text-based messaging to fit different routines and needs.
How her approaches translate to online care
Amy uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify values and take manageable steps toward them, often helping with anxiety and avoidance. She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and to support healthier emotional bonds.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Amy will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, then try methods that fit the person. She treats the plan as collaborative and adjusts it based on what the client learns in sessions.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their day. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation, phone can work when video is difficult, chat or text can support quick check-ins or ongoing contact between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping consistent momentum.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 39 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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