About Amy
Amy Flores is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Tennessee with five years of clinical experience. She draws on a decade of background working with behavior and social-emotional challenges to inform her approach. Amy focuses on practical steps people can take when stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, or changes in life feel overwhelming.
She uses a client-centered stance that highlights each person's strengths. Amy combines that with goal-focused methods to help clients reach specific outcomes.
How Amy works
Techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy are used alongside mindfulness and motivational interviewing, depending on what a person needs. Amy often supports people facing relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, anger, and identity concerns, including LGBT matters. She also addresses mood conditions such as bipolar disorder, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, and challenges linked to ADHD.
Additional areas she helps with include attachment wounds, abandonment, caregiver stress, blended family issues, and forgiveness. Sessions aim to rebuild confidence and restore a sense of direction. Amy prioritizes collaboration - she listens, helps set achievable goals, and teaches practical tools for coping.
The work can include skill practice, thought tracking, emotion regulation strategies, and mindful awareness. People who choose Amy can expect a warm, straightforward style. She frames therapy as a step-by-step process and focuses on making progress that fits each person’s life and schedule.
Amy lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Amy works with
The areas below are the ones Amy selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- 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 | Tennessee |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online flexibility
Amy often draws on client-centered therapy to build on a person’s existing strengths and priorities. This approach focuses on listening, understanding what matters to the client, and shaping sessions around their goals and values.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence mood and offers step-by-step tools for changing unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and many everyday challenges that benefit from practical exercises.
Dialectical behavior therapy techniques are used when emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness are key goals. DBT skills can help with strong emotions, relationship conflicts, and improving tolerance for distress.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Amy collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and preferences. Together they set goals and try strategies, adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation without travel, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not wanted. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins, notes between sessions, or a flexible way to communicate when schedules are tight. These options help therapy fit into busy lives and make it easier to keep momentum between appointments.
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