A note from Amy:

You’re feeling overwhelmed and don’t know where to turn. Things in life are beginning to pile up and it’s taking a toll on you emotionally. You need someone compassionate, empathic, and proactive to confide in and guide you through life’s ups and downs.  You’re ready to make some shifts in your behavior and feelings about yourself, your family, your work, or your relationships. Resiliency is a part of the human experience and you have more of it than you know.  We all have the ability to survive life’s difficulties, and with focused support and reflection, thriving is possible for you. 

Born and raised on the west coast, and having been a New Yorker for 18 years, I am familiar with different lifestyles and approaches when it comes to relationships, families, and career choices. I’ve worked in many different settings when it comes to helping others, ranging from group therapy facilitation to individual therapy for an array of life stressors including grief, trauma, illness, family dynamics, and general mental health. Identification with others is key and can create a safe, down to earth, and judgment-free environment. I also work with clients on self-esteem, self-worth, symptoms of anxiety, depression, and complex trauma from childhood.

My Approach

I often take a mix of a relational and psychodynamic approach to my therapy sessions with a sprinkle of inner child work. The primary goal of relational psychotherapy is to help clients better understand how they operate in relation to others, and how their relating patterns can have an impact on mental and emotional well-being, the ways in which they feel about themselves and the inner dialogue we create. Much of this is rewiring the way in which we think and speak to ourselves and healing childhood wounds. I encourage my clients to understand and process the dynamics in their family system growing up, their attachment issues, as well as the impact of social issues such as identity and culture. These dynamics can help us inform how to navigate traumatic experiences, self-defeating behaviors, and overwhelming life transitions. I also believe that the client and therapist working together to forge a strong, collaborative, and secure relationship can help to serve as a model for the client’s future relationships with others including the most important relationship of all, the relationship with yourself.

Everyone can benefit from extra support and reflection. I’m looking forward to listening and learning about you, building trust, and helping you break barriers.