About Amy
Amy Wesley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with nine years of clinical experience. She works with people facing anxiety, stress, depression, and life transitions. Amy aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk through what feels overwhelming and find practical ways to cope.
Her style centers on listening first and tailoring tools to each person. Amy blends client-centered care with methods from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy.
Background and approach
She uses evidence-informed techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts, practice new habits, and move toward values that matter to them. She has focused experience helping clients with relationship and family concerns, parenting challenges, blended family issues, communication and commitment problems, and fatherhood questions.
Amy also supports people facing grief, addiction concerns, social anxiety and phobia, pregnancy and childbirth transitions, and struggles with guilt, shame, or isolation. In sessions she offers practical strategies for managing strong feelings like anger and panic, and she works on building self-esteem and self-love.
Her background includes use of dialectical behavior therapy skills and elements of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing approaches. Amy practices in North Carolina and provides services in English. She welcomes working with young adults and people navigating career shifts or major life changes.
Her aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes, helping clients build skills they can use outside sessions.
How Amy’s Approaches Work Online
Amy commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them and focus on actions that reflect their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Together they choose skills and exercises that fit the person’s needs and daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give practical options. Video calls work well for deeper, face-to-face conversations while phone sessions only need a reliable connection and less bandwidth. Live chat and text sessions can be useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, school, or parenting schedules and to keep continuity during life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, South Carolina, California
- Languages
- English
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