About Amy
Amy Parsons is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia who provides virtual therapy. She focuses on common problems like stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. Her manner is direct and approachable, aimed at parents and young adults who need clear guidance and steady support.
Amy trained at Liberty University where she earned master’s degrees in Licensed Professional Counseling and in Human Services Counseling with a marriage and family emphasis.
Background and approach
She draws on a decade of experience in behavioral health settings to shape practical sessions that fit busy lives. Her work centers on evidence-based therapeutic techniques such as cognitive behavioral ideas and mindfulness practices, adapted to each person’s situation. Sessions are collaborative and solution-minded, with emphasis on coping skills, mood regulation, and handling overwhelming emotions like anger and self-harm urges.
Amy also has experience addressing mood disorders, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD), personality challenges, and the effects of past abuse or post-traumatic stress. She helps parents manage family problems and supports young adults facing life transitions and self-esteem struggles. Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
The practice uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and scheduling follows the therapist’s availability.
How evidence-based methods work online
Amy uses several evidence-based approaches that translate well to online care. Cognitive behavioral techniques focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical behavioral experiments. This helps with anxiety, depression, and mood regulation by giving clear steps to try between sessions.Mindfulness practices teach simple attention and breathing exercises to reduce reactivity and increase emotional awareness. These tools are useful for stress, anger, and trauma-related symptoms because they can be practiced in short daily moments. Dialectical behavior therapy skills concentrate on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication. They provide concrete strategies for handling intense feelings and reducing self-harm behaviors.
Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then adapt techniques to fit the client. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust methods as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill demonstrations, phone sessions can be a quicker check-in or easier when bandwidth is low, and chat or messaging supports brief updates and ongoing support between meetings. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family problems
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English