About Amy
Amy Kilgore is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPC) practicing in Virginia with 13 years of clinical experience. She brings a faith-informed perspective to her work and focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, addictions, and relationship concerns. Her approach centers on listening and helping clients name what matters to them.
Amy uses a mix of practical therapies to support change. She commonly draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help people spot thinking patterns that fuel worry or low mood.
Background and approach
She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help clients clarify values and take small steps toward a meaningful life. For trauma-related work she offers approaches aimed at processing painful memories and reducing their hold on everyday life. Sessions tend to be straightforward and goal-focused.
Amy helps people create short-term plans for coping, communication, and managing triggers. She also supports longer work on attachment, body image, eating concerns, and recovery from domestic violence or past abuse. She works with issues that often cluster together - for example grief with depression, or anxiety with substance use.
Amy also helps people facing life transitions, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, and challenges tied to adoption, attachment, or dissociation. People who prefer a faith-aware clinician and clear practical steps may find her style helpful. She encourages clients to see themselves as experts in their own lives and offers guidance, tools, and steady support as they try new ways of coping.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Amy commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different actions to change mood and behavior. CBT is practical and works well for anxiety, depression, and many daily stress problems.She also uses acceptance and commitment therapy, which focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small committed steps toward them even when feelings are uncomfortable. ACT can help with rumination, avoidance, and building a life that feels meaningful.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, past attempts, and preferences to choose methods that fit. That choice can change as progress is made, and sessions can blend techniques to match needs.
Online therapy here is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video sessions allow a more conversational visit and visual connection. Phone sessions are useful for lower bandwidth or when being on camera is not ideal. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or practicing skills between meetings. These options aim to make regular therapy simpler to fit into a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English