Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Depression
How Amy works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Years in practice
- 39
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Amy
Amy Matthews is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with nearly four decades of experience. She brings practical, down-to-earth support to people facing stress, relationship strain, grief, anger, and mood concerns. Amy speaks plainly and aims to be a steady, encouraging presence for clients.
Amy trained in marriage, family, and child counseling and earned her master's degree in 1980. She built long experience as a high school counselor in Pennsylvania and later worked in independent practice after moving to Florida.
Background and approach
That background shaped how she helps people manage everyday pressures and life transitions. In sessions she blends several approaches to match what each person needs. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to spot unhelpful patterns and try new coping skills.
Attachment-based ideas and emotionally-focused work guide conversations about closeness, trust, and repair in relationships. Amy describes herself as genuine, nonjudgmental, and often lightens heavy moments with a warm sense of humor. She says her own experiences in therapy inform her work and help her stay practical and empathetic when clients feel stuck.
People reach out to address addictions, eating and sleeping problems, self-esteem, caregiving stress, or concerns related to gender and sexual identity. She also helps with communication problems, infidelity, blended family issues, and managing anger in daily life. Sessions are offered in English and Amy accepts clients from outside the United States.
The focus is on clear goals, easy-to-try strategies, and steady support as people work toward change.
What Amy works with
Everything Amy lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Amy's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
Approaches Amy lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Psychodynamic Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapy approaches map to online sessions
Amy commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in ways that fit remote work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce distress, which adapts well to video or phone sessions where homework and skills practice are assigned. Acceptance and commitment therapy helps clients notice what matters and take value-driven action while learning to accept difficult feelings, a process that works through conversational exercises and experiential tasks between meetings.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan over time based on what helps. Clients and therapist decide together which strategies to keep and which to change.
Online sessions offer practical benefits for people with busy schedules or travel constraints. Video calls recreate a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can fit a quick check-in, and text-based messaging supports short updates or ongoing reflection. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while trying new coping skills and working on relationship or anger-related concerns.
Questions people ask about Amy
What concerns does Amy commonly address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, relationship and family difficulties, addictions, grief, and identity issues among other concerns.
What is her general therapy style?
Amy takes a direct, down-to-earth approach that mixes practical skill-building with supportive conversation and occasional humor.
How long has she been practicing?
She brings 39 years of counseling experience, including long work as a school counselor and years in independent practice.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida and practices from that state.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English, and she is open to working with clients internationally.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions based on therapist availability.