About Amber
Amber Benamou is a licensed clinical social worker with 11 years of experience in Florida. She earned her Master of Social Work magna cum laude and has practiced across community mental health, addiction services, and work related to families. Amber brings a warm, straightforward style to sessions and aims to be genuine while keeping conversations focused and practical.
She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and grief. Amber also supports those coping with trauma and abuse, anger, self-esteem concerns, and major life changes.
How Amber works
She draws on clients' existing strengths to build workable strategies and clearer next steps. Her approach mixes client-centered care with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques are used when helpful to set goals and keep progress on track.
Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-oriented, with room for empathy and some lightness when appropriate. Amber has also worked with matters related to family problems, parenting challenges, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and issues tied to addiction and eating concerns. She pays attention to communication patterns, feelings of abandonment, body image, and guilt or shame as they arise in treatment.
People who prefer practical skill-building, clear strategies, and a warm, honest therapeutic relationship often find her style a good fit. Amber focuses on helping clients gain insight and everyday tools to better handle the problems they bring to therapy.
Amber lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Amber works with
The areas below are the ones Amber selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- 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
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How Amber's Approaches Work Online
Amber often uses client-centered therapy to follow each person's lead, listen carefully, and shape sessions around what matters most to them. This approach helps people feel heard while deciding practical steps to move forward.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and for learning concrete coping skills that can change day-to-day patterns.
Mindfulness therapy is used to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and improve focus. These exercises can support emotion regulation and make other therapeutic work easier to apply in daily life.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Amber will work with each person to pick or blend methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative process can change over time as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people connect face to face from wherever they are. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or during a short break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for quick check-ins and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to practice skills in real time.
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