About Amy
Amy Svoboda is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 15 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, trauma and abuse, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, and parenting strain. Her background also includes work with LGBT concerns, compassion fatigue, and career questions.
She keeps sessions practical and straightforward. Amy listens first, then helps clients identify small steps that fit their life.
Background and approach
She draws on several approaches so she can match methods to each person instead of using one fixed style. Amy blends cognitive behavioral techniques with acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice unhelpful patterns and commit to meaningful actions. She also uses attachment-based and client-centered practices to focus on relationships and the therapeutic connection itself.
These methods are mixed based on what a client needs and prefers. Her experience includes work across settings with people who have complex mental health histories and those seeking shorter-term support. Amy has taught psychology topics and uses research to shape how she plans sessions.
She emphasizes realistic goals and skills people can use between meetings. People who choose Amy can expect thoughtful feedback, clear options, and collaborative planning. Sessions aim to reduce immediate distress and build longer-term coping.
She welcomes conversations about goals and tailors work to each person’s situation.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Amy commonly integrates cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy into online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and teaches concrete skills to change reactions and behaviors. Acceptance and commitment therapy focuses on clarifying values and committing to actions that matter, even when strong emotions are present.She also draws on attachment-based and client-centered ideas to strengthen how people relate to others and to the therapeutic relationship. These approaches emphasize understanding relationship patterns and creating a supportive space where clients are heard and guided. Figuring out which approach fits best happens together; the therapist and client decide on methods based on needs, goals, and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video sessions work well for deeper conversations and visual connection. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, between-session support, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep consistent momentum between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English