About Amy
Amy Mitchell-Washington is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in South Carolina with 24 years of combined professional experience. She began her career as an elementary educator and later spent many years in mid-level and senior management. That path shaped her practical, goal-focused approach to therapy.
Amy helps people who are dealing with anxiety, stress, depression, grief, trauma and abuse. She also supports those facing burnout, compassion fatigue, and career or parenting strain.
Background and approach
Her work includes attention to LGBTQ concerns, intimacy and relationship questions, and multicultural issues. In sessions she takes a straightforward and respectful tone. She listens first and then tailors a plan to each person's needs.
Conversations focus on understanding what is causing distress and building concrete steps to feel better. Her background in coaching and management means she often uses skills that help people set clear goals and practice new habits between sessions. She draws on client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral ideas, and emotionally focused methods to guide that work.
Amy also has experience with first responder issues, veteran and armed forces concerns, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and postpartum depression. She aims to create a supportive space where people can talk through painful events and learn coping strategies that fit their daily life.
How these approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's perspective. The therapist reflects feelings and priorities so people feel heard and can decide what changes matter most; this helps with anxiety, stress, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and actions. It teaches simple skills and experiments to test unhelpful thoughts and build new habits, which is useful for anxiety and depression.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps map relationship and attachment patterns and supports clearer emotional expression. It can be a helpful option for intimacy-related issues and relationship concerns.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate to choose approaches that match a person's goals, preferences and pace. The plan can change as progress is made and as new priorities emerge.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video lets people use visual cues during deeper sessions, phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat can be used for brief check-ins or coaching between sessions. These options offer flexibility so therapy can continue around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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