About Amy
Amy Phelps is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and relationship concerns. She works with issues like addiction, grief, eating and body image struggles, ADHD, and intimacy-related problems. Amy draws on 18 years of clinical experience and a personal lived recovery perspective to guide her work.
Amy uses a practical, person-centered style in sessions. She leans on plain talk and collaborative problem solving. Sessions focus on clear skills, reflection, and steps people can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Her background includes long experience supervising other clinicians and directing clinical services. That leadership work shapes how she organizes care and supports clients and staff. Amy says transparency and accountability matter in long-term change.
Therapeutic approaches she commonly draws on include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, and dialectical behavior strategies. She mixes methods to match each person’s needs rather than sticking to a single model. Amy also brings personal experience in recovery, which she describes as informing her empathy and practical guidance.
She has an Oklahoma-based LPC credential and nearly two decades working in counseling settings. Her faith and role as a mother are part of what she names as motivating her work. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video, phone, chat, or text messaging.
People start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule appointments according to therapist availability.
Approaches for Online Work and Practical Coping
Amy commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy alongside cognitive behavioral techniques. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes noticing thoughts and values-based action so people can move toward what matters despite difficult feelings. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people understand and change how they connect with others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and testing unhelpful thoughts and building concrete skills to change behavior.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about goals, challenges, and preferences and then suggest approaches to try. That plan can be adjusted as sessions progress so methods fit the person’s needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and practice exercises. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow short check-ins and ongoing support between scheduled appointments. These options offer flexibility to fit work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping continuity of care with a licensed professional.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English