About Amie
Amie Allanson-Dundon is a licensed professional counselor who has worked in the field for 27 years. She practices in Pennsylvania and brings a steady, practical approach to helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and other life challenges. She emphasizes straightforward, respectful meetings where the client's goals guide the work.
Amie favors a person-centered way of working, starting by listening to where someone is now. From there she mixes different approaches to match each person's needs.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on concrete steps people can use between appointments as well as time to talk through emotions and patterns. Her background includes long experience with trauma, mood disorders, obsessive and compulsive concerns, and issues linked to caregiving, first responder roles, and military service.
She also supports people facing relationship strains, fertility and fatherhood questions, blended family challenges, and career or identity concerns. Amie pays attention to cultural context and the specific pressures someone faces. In sessions she draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for learning new coping tools.
Emotionally-Focused and Jungian ideas help when deeper feelings or personal stories need attention. The mix is practical and adjusted to each person’s pace. Amie aims to make the process collaborative.
She helps people set realistic goals, practice new skills, and track progress over time. Her style is calm, direct, and focused on building useful change.
How Amie’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and shaping the work around the person’s goals; online sessions allow that same attentive listening while keeping the conversation practical and goal-focused. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) provides clear tools for changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and those exercises translate well to video or phone sessions where worksheets and homework can be reviewed together. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving tolerance; those skills can be taught, practiced, and coached over chat or text as well as in live conversations.Figuring out the best approach is part of the first sessions. The therapist and client will work together to choose which methods to try and will adjust them as progress is made. This collaborative planning helps match techniques to the person’s needs, pace, and preferences.
Online options - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video is useful when visual cues matter and for a fuller conversation. Phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat or messaging works for quick skill coaching, journaling exercises, or steady support between sessions. These formats provide flexibility so therapy can happen in ways that match everyday routines and practical needs.
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What this counselor works with
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- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, New Jersey
- Languages
- English