About Amy
Amy Montoya is a licensed professional counselor in Colorado with 16 years of experience. She brings a steady, respectful approach to sessions and focuses on practical steps people can use each week. Amy aims to make therapy feel approachable and useful from the first meeting.
Amy has a long background in social services, including work in a nursing home setting as a social services director for ten years. That experience shaped how she listens for strengths and daily routines that matter.
Background and approach
She draws on that background when people face caregiving stress, chronic health concerns, or life changes. In sessions Amy helps people who are coping with trauma and abuse, grief, depression, anxiety, and stress. She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, addictions, body image, eating concerns, and self-esteem issues.
Amy works with a range of concerns related to family, parenting, and identity, including LGBT-related topics and adoption and foster care questions. Her approach combines Client-Centered ideas with practical tools from cognitive and behavioral therapies. She also uses skills from dialectical behavior therapy and EMDR when those tools fit the goals.
Amy creates a tailored plan that matches a person's needs and pace rather than following a single script. People can expect clear goals, concrete skills to practice between sessions, and direct conversations about progress. Amy frames therapy as a partnership - she offers guidance and people decide the next steps.
The aim is steady improvement that feels manageable in daily life.
Approaches that translate to online care
Amy commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in her online work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on empathetic listening and helps people clarify their goals while feeling heard. CBT breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns.She may also draw on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills for emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness when those tools fit a person's needs. DBT provides concrete strategies for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together; Amy will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video works well for deeper conversations and interactive exercises. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins, practicing skills, or people who prefer written communication. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different life situations.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English