About Amy
Amy Nevells welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or burned out. She focuses on clear, practical steps that help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, anger, trauma, and major life changes. Amy is a Licensed Professional Counselor, and she draws on 25 years of experience to support each person who reaches out.
Amy aims to make sessions straightforward and approachable. She helps people name what’s most troubling, set realistic goals, and try small changes that can make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Conversations are direct but warm, and she encourages honest talk without judgment. In her work she uses methods that teach coping skills, reduce anxiety, and address the effects of past trauma. Clients learn ways to change unhelpful thoughts, practice grounding and mindfulness, and build routines that feel manageable.
She also blends coaching techniques when people want focused goal work such as life direction or improving self-esteem. Amy has particular experience with caregiving stress, chronic illness and pain, military or first responder challenges, and issues that often follow assault or other trauma. She also supports people facing midlife transitions, aging concerns, or complicated grief.
Her style is collaborative and practical. Amy helps people find the next right step and keeps the work realistic. She supports each person’s pace and priorities as they move toward clearer coping and more satisfying daily life.
How Amy’s approaches work online
Amy often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy in online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple breathing and grounding exercises that help reduce rumination and manage strong emotions.She also uses Motivational Interviewing to help clarify goals and find internal motivation for change. That approach is useful when someone feels stuck or unsure about the next steps. Amy works together with each person to choose which methods fit their needs and goals rather than deciding in advance.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be helpful for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reminders or short updates. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and stay consistent with the work.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English