About Amy
Amy Phelps is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oklahoma who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and relationship struggles. She brings 18 years of clinical experience and a practical, down-to-earth approach to sessions. Amy aims to make therapy straightforward and focused on what will change day-to-day life.
In session she listens without judgment and works with each person to set clear goals. Amy uses simple, evidence-informed techniques to help clients build coping skills and make small, steady changes.
Background and approach
She also draws on her own recovery journey to inform compassionate guidance for people facing addiction or relapse concerns. Amy blends several therapy styles depending on each person’s needs. She often uses cognitive behavioral strategies to shift unhelpful thinking and acceptance-based methods to reduce struggle with difficult emotions.
Attachment-informed ideas shape how she looks at relationship and intimacy issues. She values collaboration and transparency, asking questions and sharing observations so people understand the work. Amy prefers a practical focus - building skills, improving communication, and restoring daily routines like sleep and self-care.
She also offers clinical supervision and mentorship to other clinicians. Outside of clinical work she names motherhood and faith as important influences on her practice. Her leadership experience includes directing clinical teams and working with local courts to support community mental health.
Amy describes therapy as a partnership toward lasting change.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Amy often blends cognitive behavioral techniques with acceptance-based and attachment-informed ideas to help people address anxiety, mood concerns, and relationship patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve daily habits. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then move toward valued actions that matter to them. Attachment-Based ideas shape how she looks at patterns in relationships and helps people build healthier ways of connecting.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amy discusses goals and preferences with each person and tailors methods accordingly. She views therapy as a collaboration where the person and therapist try methods, check what helps, and adjust the plan over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people practice skills and talk face-to-face. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and messaging are useful for quick support, homework prompts, and tracking progress between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or school schedules while keeping a consistent treatment plan.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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