About Amy
Amy Oxendine is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in North Carolina who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, addiction, grief, and relationship concerns. She brings a practical, hopeful manner to conversations and focuses on small steps people can take between sessions. Amy aims to make therapy feel doable for busy lives.
She draws on seven years of clinical experience across settings such as personal mental health agencies, child protective services, hospitals, group homes, and public schools.
Background and approach
That range shaped her approach to practical problem solving and meeting people where they are. Amy has worked with adults and school-aged students and has experience supporting veterans with depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, and military sexual trauma. Amy uses a mix of methods to fit the person in front of her.
She uses client-centered methods to follow a person's priorities, cognitive behavioral strategies to help change unhelpful thinking and behavior, mindfulness to build present-moment awareness, and motivational interviewing to strengthen readiness for change. She believes different tools suit different people rather than a single fixed method. In sessions she focuses on clear goals and concrete skills.
That might mean planning daily routines to improve sleep, trying a short behavior experiment, or practicing a brief mindfulness exercise. Amy emphasizes small, achievable changes that build confidence over time. She encourages people to bring their real-life problems into the room.
Amy aims to partner with each person to set realistic goals and track progress toward them.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Amy often uses client-centered work that puts the person's priorities first. This means sessions begin with what matters most to the client and progress is led by their goals and values.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, ADHD-related routines, and coping with stress by breaking problems into small, manageable steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and happens together. The therapist will discuss goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. That collaborative process makes it easier to focus on practical changes that fit daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing coaching-style work between sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, school, caregiving, and health needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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