About Amy
Amy Montoya is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Colorado with 16 years of experience. She takes a straightforward, respectful approach and focuses on helping people move toward clearer goals and better daily functioning. Amy spent many years working in nursing home social services, which shaped her practical problem-solving style.
She draws on that experience when helping people manage health-related stress, caregiver strain, and life transitions. In session she listens first and builds a plan with each person.
Background and approach
She uses conversational, goal-focused work so clients can try new skills between visits. Typical topics she addresses include trauma and abuse, depression, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, and ADHD-related challenges. Amy also supports people with concerns about identity and LGBT-related stress, substance issues, eating and body image, and parenting strain.
She adapts her approach to fit each person’s needs rather than using a single template. Her style combines empathy with practical tools. She helps people break big problems into small steps and practices skills during and between sessions.
Amy’s work aims to make daily life easier to manage while honoring each person’s values and goals.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Amy uses Client-Centered Therapy to make space for each person’s experience, offering a listening, nonjudgmental stance that helps people feel heard and choose their own goals. This approach is helpful for relationship concerns, identity questions, and when someone wants a supportive place to talk.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thinking and develop practical skills. CBT is useful for mood, anxiety, ADHD-related planning struggles, and learning steps to manage daily tasks and emotions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Amy will discuss options and tailor methods to your needs, goals, and preferences so therapy feels collaborative and relevant to real life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls are good for a face-to-face feel, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can work for quick check-ins or when typing feels more comfortable. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to continue steady progress from wherever you are.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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