About Amber
Amber Wilder is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 13 years of experience. She practices from Nevada and brings a calm, approachable manner to sessions. Amber aims to make the first steps feel manageable for people who are worried or overwhelmed.
She keeps things down-to-earth and nonjudgmental. Conversations are relaxed and straightforward. Amber listens for strengths and helps set small, concrete goals clients can work toward between sessions.
Her background includes a master's degree from Fort Hays State University and licensure as an LCPC in Nevada and Kansas.
How Amber works
Over the years she has used a mix of cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance and commitment strategies, attachment-focused work, client-centered methods, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy to respond to different needs. Amber adapts her approach to each person rather than following a script. She may use talk, skill-building, or trauma-focused techniques when appropriate.
The focus is on practical steps that reduce stress, manage emotions, and improve relationships and daily functioning. Sessions are offered online in several formats and Amber notes when she typically reviews messages. She aims to help people navigate anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, parenting strain, identity questions, and life transitions with steady support and clear tools.
Amber lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Nevada |
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Online support options
Practical approaches for online healing
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without letting them control action. It focuses on values-based goals and taking small steps toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills for intense moods and relationship strain.Choosing an approach is collaborative. Amber will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, preferences, and current needs. That might mean starting with skills-building from CBT, adding ACT strategies for values-based work, or using attachment ideas to understand relationship patterns.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick progress notes, brief support between sessions, or people who are more comfortable writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while maintaining steady progress.
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