About Amy
Amy Swetnam is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with 36 years of experience. She has spent decades helping people who are overwhelmed by major life stresses, mood shifts, grief, addiction concerns, and anxiety. Amy focuses on building a working relationship that feels respectful and direct.
She aims to help people learn practical skills they can use between sessions. That often means breaking problems into small, manageable steps and trying simple strategies that show results quickly.
Background and approach
She encourages self-understanding and steady progress rather than quick fixes. Amy draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral methods and solution-focused strategies to guide conversations and homework. She also uses trauma-focused work when past events are getting in the way of day-to-day functioning.
Sessions tend to be goal-oriented and rooted in real-life solutions. People come to her for a wide range of concerns including depression, anxiety, relationship and intimacy-related issues, substance use, grief, and caregiver stress. Additional focuses include postpartum depression, first responder issues, and coping with serious illness or end-of-life matters.
Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She works with each person to create an action plan shaped by their priorities. The emphasis is on learning tools, making steady changes, and restoring a sense of control.
Online approaches that focus on skills and results
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety and mood symptoms. It often involves practicing new ways of thinking and small behavioral changes to see improvement over weeks.Solution-Focused Therapy centers on identifying clear goals and building on strengths. Sessions typically focus on steps that move a person toward those goals, which can be useful for stress, career decisions, and relationship concerns.
Trauma-Focused Therapy helps people process events that continue to affect daily life and reduce the ways trauma limits functioning. Work is paced to what a person can handle and includes techniques to manage strong emotions.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss how each method might fit a person's needs, goals, and comfort level, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online care offers practical benefits like flexible scheduling and easier access from different locations. Video calls are useful when face-to-face interaction matters, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can be good for quick check-ins or shorter, more frequent contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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