About Amber
Amber Sorsek is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. She brings a calm, person-centered style and focuses on practical steps clients can use between sessions. Amber works in English and practices with clients in New Mexico via online formats.
Amber spent her early social work years as a hospital case manager and then in independent practice.
How Amber works
She has experience providing telehealth counseling and has worked in addiction treatment settings. Her background includes work with military community programs and roles that involved family advocacy and clinical management. Her approach is trauma-informed and rooted in ecological systems thinking.
That means she looks at how a person’s surroundings - social, cultural, and environmental - affect their stress and relationships. Therapy sessions are collaborative; Amber helps clients set goals and tries to match methods to each person’s needs. She uses a mix of evidence-based techniques to address symptoms and patterns.
In individual work she emphasizes skills for emotion regulation, problem solving, and healthier behavior patterns. For relationship concerns she focuses on improving communication, empathy, and reducing destructive cycles. Amber has five years of clinical experience and holds an LCSW license in New Mexico.
She describes therapy as a process of building strengths and making practical changes that fit a person’s life.
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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Mexico |
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Online support options
Approach to evidence-based care and online therapy
Amber uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. Cognitive behavioral techniques help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test different behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Skills-based approaches modeled on dialectical behavior ideas teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better ways to respond in heated moments, which can help with intense emotions and impulsivity.Finding the right approach is collaborative. Amber works with clients to review goals, try methods, and adjust the plan as needed. She discusses risks and benefits when considering more targeted trauma work and supports clients in choosing what feels like the best fit for their needs and comfort.
Online therapy offers flexibility and can fit into busy lives. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins, and live chat or text-based messaging can support shorter exchanges or ongoing skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule regular sessions and keep treatment consistent over time.
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