About me
Hello! I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida with over 17 years of experience empowering individuals to live their best lives while coping with difficulties including anxiety, depression, trauma, medical concerns, and family/parenting challenges. I have a variety of personal and professional experiences that contribute to the development of my empathy, understanding, and relatability. I began my career working with children who had a family member murdered. Since then I have worked with a variety of trauma victims including sexual abuse survivors, adults with child abuse histories, and domestic violence victims. Also, I have counseled many individuals struggling emotionally due to chronic medical conditions. I am a cancer survivor; therefore I am extremely passionate about helping others cope with medical conditions and the consequences of the conditions including chronic pain and infertility. Additionally, for several years I have worked with children and families involved in the child welfare systems. I understand the stresses of parenting and the effects of abuse on children. Therefore, I am deeply invested in helping parents develop better skills for happier families. Overall, I just love helping individuals with emotional struggles no matter what the cause find relief. I believe what Victor Frankl said, “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”
Starting counseling can be very “nerve-racking.” I will try to make it as comfortable as possible. My counseling style is warm, patient, and client-centered. I encourage my clients to develop their own goals and area of focus, but I am always there to help guide them. Also, I am very logical and insight-oriented. My clients often comment that I have helped them develop new understandings and perspectives. Finally, I work hard to be culturally competent. I have lived and traveled all over the world; therefore I am very open to understanding and accepting others. If you are ready to begin a journey of healing and empowerment, I am here to help you!!
I look forward to hearing from you soon!!
Specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
Relationship issues , Family conflicts , Grief , Parenting issues , Anger management , Career difficulties , Bipolar disorder , Coaching , Compassion fatigue , ADHD , Abandonment , Adoption and Foster Care , Attachment Issues , Read more...
Clinical approaches:
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Gottman Method, Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy
Services offered
Messaging
Live Chat
Phone
Video
Licensing
UT LCMHC 12799673-6004
ME LCPC CC6727
FL LMHC MH 9223
Reviews
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Amber helped me get to the root of my stuckness. I am very grateful.
I want to thank Amber for helping me through my anxiety, and educating me about different tools & techniques to help relieve the anxiety. Also for being honest with me and truly helping me grow. Thank you for your patience, grace and truly understanding!
Amber has been a great help to me in such a short amount of time. I hope our paths cross again in the future!
Fantastic
I am getting such a lot out of my sessions with Amber. She's not passive, she's so proactive and engaged. She has great tools and tips and gets down to business from the second the session starts. I highly recommend her if you're wanting to make progress and move forward.
Good
She's been so helpful and understanding. She listens to everything I have to say and has given me amazing tools to use to help me! She's just absolutely amazing and I love her!
Amber Smith is a kind and helpful therapist. She makes good suggestions and is always ready to listen.
Amber is extremely knowledgeable, understanding and supportive. She has shared some resources with me which have been extremely helpful in helping me understand my thought processes and I come away from our sessions feeling hopeful and motivated.
Amber has picked me apart beautifully from session 1, she knows what I need and how to get where I want to be, and then has the patience and wisdom when I don't do these things and return week after week seeking her insight.
She makes me feel comfortable about sharing anything I want and makes me look forward to our sessions if I need one, and helps me to feel sometimes like I don't.
Thank you thank you thank you
Great therapist!
We’ve only had a couple sessions together but I feel confident that we will continue to work together. Amber listens attentively and responds with actionable items or questions that provoke additional thoughts. She has made some profound statements regarding my anxiety. Looking forward to more sessions!
I've been visiting with Amber for a while now. I'm new to therapy and not sure how its supposed to go, but we've been working together and she is great to work with. I feel like she's an active partner in the therapeutic relationship, and very attentive to my needs and concerns. She would be a great partner to work with if youre trying to figure out, work on, or take charge of your own mental health.
Amber Smith is a Godsend. She completely understands me and is incredibly helpful and encouraging. I've had a few BetterHelp therapists and she is BY FAR the best one I've had. She listens and she actually helps you make plans and goals to help with healing! She's amazing. 11/10 recommend.
Working with Amber has been amazing! She is an amazing therapist! Not only is she kind and patient, but provides such thoughtful advice and helpful tools. She has helped me challenge and clarify my thoughts and concerns and has helped provide insight and prospective to my life. Thanks to Amber I feel like I’m finally back on track to a healthier, happier me.
So far so good! She's been fantastic thus far!
Amber Smith has been an agent of change in my life, in the sense that she has helped me discover many aspects of my personality that were affecting my quality of life. I feel that she has saved my life and has helped me grow both emotionally and spiritually. Also, she has helped me feel happy and grateful for my life and understand that not everything in life can be perfect. Thank you Amber for showing me the way and for giving me quality of life. I will always be grateful and I can't find enough words to thank you for everything you have done for me. May God bless you and your family always
After now a year working with Amber, I truly am so changed and overwhelmed with gratitude for her. Her perspectives, advice, calmness, understanding and patience all give me the tools to get myself to be my best version. I will continue to work with her as I see that our client/therapist relationship has continued to push me to keep making positive changes.
I have really appreciated Amber's listening ear, her willingness to tell me hard things and the kind and gentle way she is helping me to move forward.
Amber is very good at pinpointing the issue and applying real and specific solutions.
Amber is awesome! She has been very responses and we click very well.
Amber is a remarkable therapist! She is an incredible listener, provides great advice, and shares great worksheets with me. I feel safe with Amber and I trust her. I would recommend her to anyone!
Amber Smith has this ability to help me see things more logically and from a different perspective. She does this with kindness and patience, assigns weekly goals and checks with me to see my progress. It’s wonderful to have someone who is there that will listen objectively and offer feedback and hold me accountable on goals I’ve set for myself. We are a good fit.
Amber is great! I have been working with her for a couple of months and I am thinking in ways that I haven't before, and she helps in challenging me but also in guiding me to be more confident with my own decisions.
Great therapist!
Amber’s calm, clarity, and compassion are extremely helpful for me. Working with her is making a huge difference in my life.
My experience with Amber is amazing. She always listens patiently and provides great and positive advice. She has been a great help in understanding myself and facing my traumas. I'd recommend Amber with no hesitation. Thank you Amber!
My work with Amber was been one of the most beneficial things I have ever done. I would recommend Amber 100%.
I have felt extremely at ease in my sessions, challenged where necessary and always listened to.
Thank you Amber!
Amber is an exceptional therapist. I have done therapy for years, but for the first time ever I feel that it actually helped me! She has given me many new ways to think about my life, thoughts and anxiety that no other therapist has introduced me to before. She also gave me many new and helpful coping techniques and self-care strategies that I will be able to easily implement in my daily life. Finally, she helped me come up with a long term plan that will ensure my continued success, but will be here if needed! I highly recommend Amber for anyone struggling with anxiety!
Therapy has never been very productive for me in the past, but finally being able to find someone with the expertise in exactly what I've been through and what I'm dealing with has been an absolute game changer! I have been recommending BetterHelp at least twice a week since I started.
I have never been or gone to therapy before, and after going through a traumatic event in my life I sought to counseling. Amber has been amazing, and helped me through so much. I am so thankful to have downloaded BetterHelp and have amber be my therapist. She is the best, and I can see that she looks out for my well being.
Amber has been phenomenal. There have been things that she has helped me understand about myself and I am truly grateful to have someone who understands to talk to
Amber is very responsive smd helpful
Amber is very kind and gentle in her approach with coinciding. She has a very bright energy and smile. I have been meeting with her for a few months and I very much look forward to our sessions each week!
She’s so great and understand and I really have a lot of faith in her. It’s been only 3 sessions and I feel a significant change already
I have successfully gotten over my work anxiety with Amber’s help! She is very understanding and helps me work through any issue I may have.
Amber has been so helpful in my healing and growth journey; she has given me new tools to work through immediate concerns, as well as long term solutions to work towards. I feel comfortable bringing up concerns with her, and know I will get an honest and helpful answer. Amber is supportive, and lets me speak freely about the experiences I’ve had without any judgement. We have also looked through worksheets together to help me have a better understanding of my mental health. I look forward to our sessions together!
Amber has really helped me cope during a difficult and traumatic time in my life. She's provided me with many different tools and techniques to cope with my emotions in a much healthier way.
We’ve only met for a couple sessions but she’s been very open about working with me and finding a method that works for me. Looking forward to seeing what ongoing sessions will brjng
Amber is really great. She's straightforward and works to understand what I'm going through then comes up with very helpful exercises to help me learn how to work through things.
Amber was awesome and easy to talk to. She asked the right questions and prompted me to address certain issues that I wouldn’t normally talk about. Addressing those issues certainly helped reduce my anxiety and my low mood. At the end of one month I was feeling much better, energetic and motivated
Very helpful and friendly :)