About Amy
Amy Phelps is a licensed professional counselor with 18 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship struggles, addictions, grief, and issues around self-esteem and intimacy. Her style aims to be straightforward and compassionate so people can feel heard and make steady changes.
Amy blends practical skills with a person-centered outlook. Sessions often include clear tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and skills training to help with emotion regulation and coping.
How Amy works
She also draws on acceptance-based and attachment-focused ideas when helpful, tailoring work to each person's goals. Clients can expect direct communication and gentle challenge when needed. Amy values transparency and works collaboratively so people understand the why behind interventions.
She describes therapy as a partnership that balances respect, honesty, and encouragement. Her background includes nearly two decades of practice and roles supervising and mentoring other clinicians. That supervisory work informs how she organizes treatment and supports steady progress over time.
She also speaks from personal experience in recovery, which she says informs her understanding of addiction and long-term change. Amy practices in Oklahoma and holds the LPC credential, which stands for Licensed Professional Counselor. She offers sessions in English and uses a mix of live and text-based formats to fit different schedules and needs.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability.
Amy lists 16 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)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- 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
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oklahoma |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes by teaching practical steps to move toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behaviors. It provides clear exercises and homework that translate well to video or messaging formats for problems like anxiety, mood concerns, and sleep difficulties.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and adjust the plan as progress is made. That collaborative planning helps people feel involved and keeps work focused on concrete results.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals in formats that include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text is useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when flexibility is needed during a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while still using established therapeutic techniques.
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