About Amy
Amy Montoya is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado with 16 years of clinical experience. She draws on long experience in health and social services to help people facing emotional pain, life changes, and relationship strain. Amy aims to make therapy practical and understandable from the first session.
Before independent practice she worked many years overseeing social services in a nursing home setting. That background gives her experience with caregiving stress, aging issues, chronic illness, and complex family dynamics.
How Amy works
She brings that perspective to work with people dealing with grief, loss, and major life transitions. Amy uses straightforward talk and clear goals during sessions. She adapts treatment to fit each person's needs and comfort level.
Sessions may include problem-solving, learning new coping skills, and processing past trauma. She helps people with anxiety, depression, stress, addiction concerns, and self-esteem struggles. Other areas she supports include LGBT-related concerns, parenting strain, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and body image challenges, and coping with abandonment or adoption-related matters.
Her approach combines client-centered listening with practical tools drawn from cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavior, emotionally-focused, and trauma-focused methods. Amy encourages small, manageable steps and focuses on skills a person can use between sessions. She seeks to empower people to move toward a more satisfying daily life.
Amy lists 10 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.
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Online support options
How Amy’s Approaches Work Online
Amy integrates client-centered therapy and trauma-focused methods to help people when they meet remotely. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening carefully and matching the pace to the person. It helps people feel understood and clarifies what they most want to change. EMDR, used for trauma, involves guided attention to painful memories while building new ways to store them; it can reduce the intensity of traumatic material and the reactions it triggers.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amy will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, comfort level, and symptoms. She checks in about progress and adjusts the plan so therapy stays useful and relevant to day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises that need visual cues. Phone calls can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging work well for short check-ins, coaching-style support, or when writing helps organize thoughts. These formats make scheduling easier and allow therapy to fit work, family, and other routines.
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