About Marvin
Marvin Amos is a licensed professional counselor with 12 years of clinical experience based in Tennessee. He works with adults facing depression, bipolar mood challenges, ADHD, eating concerns, and the aftermath of trauma and abuse. Marvin uses straightforward talk, practical skills, and steady guidance to help people manage day-to-day struggles.
In sessions he focuses on what matters to each person. He helps clients sort priorities, practice coping skills, and try new ways of handling emotional ups and downs.
Background and approach
Conversations are collaborative and aimed at small, achievable changes rather than quick fixes. Marvin draws from several evidence-informed approaches. He uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and build committed action, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
These tools are tailored to the individual's needs and goals. He also addresses related issues such as attachment concerns, communication problems, caregiver stress, addiction, and challenges tied to adoption or foster care. Marvin pays attention to how life events and relationships shape mood and behavior, and he helps people develop routines and strategies that fit their lives.
Marvin aims to make therapy practical and approachable. He supports clients through transitions and helps them build skills they can use between sessions. His style is calm, direct, and focused on real-world results.
How Marvin’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy emphasizes clarifying what matters to you and taking small actions that align with those values. It can help when depression, avoidance, or feeling stuck get in the way of daily life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is useful for mood challenges, anxiety, and patterns that keep causing problems.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy teaches skills for managing intense emotions and tolerating distress. It is often used when emotional overwhelm or unstable moods interfere with work or relationships.
Marvin treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. He will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your situation. Together you can adjust strategies over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let you have fuller conversations and see nonverbal cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, skill practice, or when writing things out feels clearer. These options let people fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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