About Amy
Amy Nevells is a licensed professional counselor with 25 years of experience. She helps people who are stressed, anxious, grieving, or facing big life changes. Amy is direct and compassionate, and she focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Amy creates a calm space where clients can talk about hard things without feeling judged. She uses clear, goal-oriented conversations to help people manage anger, cope with trauma, and build stronger self-esteem.
Background and approach
She also supports those who are navigating caregiver strain, chronic health concerns, or seasonal mood changes. Her approach blends tools from cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness. That means clients learn ways to notice unhelpful thinking, try new behaviors, and use simple mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity.
She pairs those tools with solution-focused planning to set small, achievable goals. Amy also draws on trauma-focused methods when people need help processing painful events. Those methods are used at a pace the client is comfortable with, and she looks for ways to restore a sense of safety and control.
She works by coaching and collaborating with each person to match strategies to their life. Sessions are practical and concrete, with worksheets, brief experiments, and step-by-step plans when those fit. Amy practices in South Carolina and offers services in English.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
She often uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different actions to change mood and behavior. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and ADHD-related challenges because it breaks problems into clear, manageable steps.She also integrates mindfulness therapy to teach attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and improve focus. Mindfulness pairs well with other methods to help people stay calmer and make more intentional choices.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and comfort level, and will adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video is helpful for more in-depth conversational work, phone can fit brief check-ins or lower bandwidth situations, and chat or messaging can be useful for short updates and homework support. These options let people fit sessions into busy days and keep continuity when travel or work schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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