About Amber
Amber Rentfro (Dealy) is a Licensed Professional Counselor who brings personal experience and professional care to her work. She frames therapy as a shared journey and focuses on helping people move through pain toward clearer days. Her direct, compassionate style helps people feel understood and less alone.
She has three years of clinical experience and practices in Missouri. Her work addresses common and complex concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, trauma and abuse, grief, and addictions.
Background and approach
She also supports people navigating relationship strain, parenting challenges, anger, low self-esteem, career changes, and compassion fatigue. Amber uses an integrative approach that blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, and client-centered work. She draws from these methods to help people build coping skills, manage intense emotions, and process difficult memories.
Sessions emphasize practical skills and real-world steps between meetings. She also attends to less common or layered issues like attachment wounds, abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, codependency, dissociation, and domestic violence. Amber works with people affected by alternative sex culture and kink, caregiver stress, and co-occurring conditions.
Her goal is to meet each person where they are and tailor the work to individual needs. People who choose her tend to want clear tools, steady support, and a therapist who values authenticity. She encourages honest conversation and focuses on small, achievable changes that add up over time.
How her approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then focus on actions that reflect personal values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical ways to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which helps with anxiety, depression, and coping skills. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method that supports processing painful memories and reducing their emotional intensity.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they adapt techniques from these methods so the work fits the person and the problems they want to address.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins or ongoing support between meetings and can fit into a busy schedule. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing daily life.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English