About Amy
Amy Swetnam is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 36 years of experience helping people face hard moments. She guides clients through addiction, grief, trauma, anxiety, depression, and stress. Amy focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
She centers respect, dignity, and acceptance in each interaction. Over decades of practice she has worked with many clients on relationship and intimacy issues, codependency, coping with life changes, and career concerns.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with caregiver strain, hospice and end-of-life matters, and health-related stress like cancer. Amy draws on clear, goal-oriented methods to keep sessions focused and useful. Her approach blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy.
That mix helps clients change unhelpful thoughts, find concrete solutions, and process difficult experiences at a pace that feels manageable. Sessions aim to build skills the person can use between meetings. Amy takes a straightforward, collaborative style.
She works with each person to set realistic goals and create an action plan. Progress is reviewed regularly and the plan is adjusted as needed. She practices in Texas and offers therapy in English.
Amy values creating a strong working relationship and will work with clients to find strategies that fit their life and needs.
How Amy's Approaches Work Online
Amy uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT often involves small experiments and practice between sessions to reduce anxiety, depression, or problematic habits.She also draws on Solution-Focused Therapy, which zeroes in on strengths and practical steps. This approach helps people set clear goals and identify small changes that lead to forward momentum.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist and client discuss needs, preferences, and goals and then choose or blend methods that feel right. Plans are revisited and adjusted as progress is made so the work stays relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people connect face to face for fuller conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients share thoughts between sessions and get brief support without scheduling a full call. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep steady momentum toward goals.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English