About Amy
Amy Creason is a licensed professional counselor in Missouri who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and life transitions. She uses practical, down-to-earth methods to help clients set goals and build skills. Amy draws on ten years of clinical experience to offer steady, respectful support.
She begins by listening and learning what each person wants to change. Sessions are collaborative and goal-focused. Amy keeps conversations straightforward and works at the client’s pace to build tools for day-to-day challenges.
Background and approach
Amy blends several approaches to match what a client needs. She uses client-centered work to follow each person’s priorities. She brings in cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors, and she uses mindfulness and dialectical behavior skills for emotion regulation and stress relief.
Her background includes a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology and a post-master’s veteran behavioral health certificate. Amy has worked with people facing anxiety, depression, substance use concerns, family conflict, trauma and grief, and career or parenting stress. In sessions she focuses on clear strategies like coping skills, behavioral steps, and communication practice.
She also helps people reflect on patterns that keep them stuck, such as avoidance, impulsivity, or unhelpful beliefs about themselves. Her style aims to be steady, compassionate, and practical. Therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Amy works with clients to choose the format and pace that best fit their lives.
How Amy's Approaches Work Online
Amy often combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy to meet goals in online sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding a person's priorities and building a collaborative plan. It helps when someone needs a listening, nonjudgmental space to figure out what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors together and offers concrete steps to reduce anxiety, manage mood, or change patterns that cause trouble.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills when people struggle with strong emotions or impulsive actions. DBT techniques teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, which can be practiced during sessions and applied between meetings. Choosing a therapeutic approach is a shared process; the therapist and client discuss goals, try methods, and adjust based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions are a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a camera feels like too much. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework prompts, or ongoing support between full sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and daily routines.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English