About Amy
Amy Shumack is an Accredited Social Worker (AASW) and counsellor with eight years of experience. She focuses on anxiety, stress, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues and self esteem. Amy aims to help people feel calmer and more connected to themselves and others.
Amy works in a warm and respectful way. Sessions are practical and grounded. She listens, asks clear questions and helps people notice what is happening in their bodies and minds.
Background and approach
This makes it easier to find small changes that build over time. Her background includes trauma-informed counselling and somatic approaches that bring attention to bodily sensations and breath. Amy combines these with client-centred conversations and narrative ideas to help people untangle unhelpful stories about themselves.
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and mindfulness techniques to support present-moment coping. People come for help with anxiety, stress, feelings of abandonment, attachment worries, body image, sexual concerns and isolation. Amy also works with issues such as guilt and shame, forgiveness, life purpose and post-traumatic stress.
She offers straightforward tools to manage symptoms between sessions. Amy encourages a collaborative working style. She aims to create a space where people feel seen and understood, and leaves room for each person to set goals that matter to them.
Her approach is practical, paced to the individual, and focused on small steps toward greater wellbeing.
Approaches that work well online for anxiety and trauma
Amy commonly blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and helps people choose actions that reflect their values. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early bonds shape present worries, which can help with intimacy and trust issues.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Amy works collaboratively to identify which methods fit a person's needs and preferences. She adapts tools and exercises as the work unfolds so clients can try different ways of managing anxiety, trauma responses and relationship patterns.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and body-centred noticing, phone work can be useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel while still accessing appropriately qualified therapists.
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What this therapist works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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