About Me
I work with you to identify how you want your life to look and feel like and then to address any blocks you might have to having the life you desire. I want to help you achieve your desired therapy goals as quickly as possible while giving you as much time as you need. I teach mindfulness skills to clients and skills to help them learn how to take control of their emotions so that their emotions are no longer controlling them. I use dialectical behavior therapy, cognitive behavior therapy, EMDR therapy, energy psychology methods and other types of therapy that might be helpful depending on your preferences and problems. I am also a certified life coach.
I got my start working in residential treatment with counseling and providing case management for people who have severe and persistent mental illness. From there, I moved to an outpatient community mental health agency, where I worked for five years as a therapist specializing in helping people who have co-occurring disorders (one or more mental health disorders and a substance use disorder and/or addiction). While working in community mental health, I started my private practice and did both until September 2016, when I went full time in private practice. My coaching practice is online and I facilitate a personal growth and development group.
I have a bachelor's degree in social science, a master's degree in counseling psychology, seven years (ABD) in a doctoral program for counseling psychology, and I transferred to a PhD program in psychology specializing in consciousness, spirituality, and integrative health.
Specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Relationship issues , Family conflicts , Grief , Eating disorders , Anger management , Career difficulties , Bipolar disorder , Depression , Abandonment , Attachment Issues , Body Image , Co-morbidity , Codependency , Commitment Issues , Read more...
Clinical approaches:
Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Existential Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Gottman Method, Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Somatic Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy
Services Offered
Messaging
Live Chat
Phone
Video
Licensing
LMHC #LH60403531 (Expires: 2023-02-11)
Reviews
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Amy is an incredible therapist. She is kind, non judgemental and very wise.
Really appreciate her help, she listens and offers helpful suggestions that totally fit my situation.
I really appreciate Amy’s support and responsiveness.
I recommend better help all the time to my friends as a therapy option. I'm really delighted I was paired with Amy Plumb; she really gets what I'm going thru and gives great advice!
Amy is personalable and cares about my well being.
I've been working with Amy on stress and anxiety. She is very kind, thoughtful, and respectful! She's helped me weather a lot of different storms throughout COVID. I can't thank her enough for how she's helped me become more self aware and proactive about my challenges.
Amy is great
Amy is very empathetic and creates a great connection with her patients. She is an active listener and provides good strategies to address concerns.
I like Amy and would recommend her to those who use EAP!
Amy has helped me walk through the Dialectical Behavioral Therapy process. Her videos and guidance are down to earth, and practical. I feel comfortable approaching her with any thoughts or concerns that come up during DBT. She has an understanding and supportive manner that has made all the difference. Having a wonderful therapist like her is an absolute must when dealing with any troubles this life can throw at you!
Grateful to have received such a qualified and positively impactful support! The provided tools and the insightful discussions were extremely helpful.
Amy has consistency, and great empathy. I strongly recommend Amy.
I have actually recommended it and I have a few friends who use the app because of my experience. I love the app and my therapist is awesome. She's been extremely instrumental in helping me this last year and changing my life patterns for the better.
Amy's the best! My cousin recently joined and his
therapist pairing has been perfect so far! Very grateful for this app. I'd be a wreck without it
Amy is very responsive to me and even reaches out to check in with me when I get too inside of my own head.
Amy has been great since I have started this program. I have no complains at all and she does an amazing job at checking in to make sure I'm doing ok. Sometimes it's just nice to have someone reach out when you're struggling and it's been helpful.
Amy provided good questions and comments that helped me navigate and find the areas I needed to work on to get back on track. She is empathetic and succinct which is appreciated. She helped me chart my own course for getting back where I wanted to be. Thank you!
Amy is professional and compassionate. She makes sure to check in here and then as necessary, based on how you're doing. Definitely would recommend her.
Amy has helped me like no others. She took time to understand me, get to know me and all the way through has been a fantatsic guide and support. I have felt very comfortable with her in a way that enable me to openly, shamlessly share everything with her. Amy is my counsellor and would not look for anyone else. Thanks for this Amy!
I have really benefited from my work with Amy. She has helped me through some incredibly tough spots and I’m feeling much better about my life.
So glad you kept at me to answer! Sometimes it takes a while to get to the top of my "notice me now" pile! You've succeeded! Great work! I'm looking forward to having someone to talk to! Self help is important, so I need this for me, for my family for my coworkers, and my sanity!
Amy is my first match on betterhelp and I find it impressive. I wanted someone who would challenge me in the ways that I needed to be challenged without feeling like I'm being belittled. I feel like Amy is a professional friend.
Her objective support helps me gain new insights on the challenges I'm facing. When something difficult happens during the day, it helps me to write her a message about it. Her advice helps me feel more in control of the situation. I look forward to getting her insights.
Amy is a great counsellor with fantastic credentials and I would recommend her without hesitation.
Amy is very diligent and follow up with resources and kind messages after sessions. I have always felt well cared for by this counselor.
Amy is awesome. She listens to me and asks me how I'm doing if its been a while since I've massaged.
Amy has been really helpful with getting through a difficult time in my life. It’s nice to have someone to just talk through hard stuff that I don’t feel comfortable sharing with others.
Amy's willingness to connect to me as a person who has lived experiences similar to mine makes her advice and resources so much more impactful. She is easy to talk to and is authentic.
I have only been working with Amy Plumb for a few weeks so far, but I am finding it helpful. She is insightful and straightforward, which I really appreciate. I appreciate that she listens well, but also doesn't waste time. I feel very crunched for time right now, so am grateful that she provided some tools right away to help address my anxiety and stress, among other things. She is clear, concise, gives great examples and explanations of healthy vs. unhealthy behavioral patterns. Also, I enjoy her sense of humor, which is a nice bonus to lighten the mood when I've been feeling so stressed.
I love Amy, she helps me understands what the problem is when I'm having a hard time. She also helps me understand frustrating situations with my family. She doesn't judge its really great to be able to talk to someone who doesn't judge
Amazing counselor!
I’ve been working with Amy for a few months now and she’s already gave me so many tools to use in my daily life to shift my perspective and make my life more enjoyable. We’re continuing work in DBT and I’m excited to see how well I can better cope with situations after working on it more.
Serves as an excellent sounding board without pressing any advice or plans.
Super knowledgeable in a lot of modalities. I’m a betterhelp counselor myself and I feel fortunate to have been matched with someone so capable and professional to help me with my life and practice.
Amy’s is strait and tot he point.
From just the first few texts we’ve had I can tell Amy’s very diligent with her approach
Amy is direct, honest and supportive. Come prepared with your challenges to your phone meetings to get the most out of it. I definitely recommend Amy!
Amy had been great and a very positive support for me
Amy's absolutely wonderful and is extremely supportive. Not only does she validate me when I'm feeling a certain way when I'm supposed to feel a certain way, she also points out when I'm not being rational and I'm not "in the right." She's wonderful and I highly recommend her to anyone!!!
I find Amy to be very supportive and, most especially attentive to what I might need, at each moment of our collaboration together. She was prompt in her replies and also encouraging of my commitment and progress. Reading recommendations were spot on and she identified the source of my angst and frustration which has helped me do the work I need to get to where I want to be. I'm a WIP, like us all, but I'm enjoying the process of becoming more myself. Thank You Amy | FB
Amy has been great. It’s nice having someone to talk to when it’s convenient for you. She seems to really care and has great insight.
Amy is straight forward in the best communicative way. It's only been a couple of weeks working with her and I can confidently say that I'm growing into a new self and constantly practicing what that means!
Amy is compassionate, caring, and respectful. She listens deeply and makes you feel like your concerns and feelings are valid.
Amy is a dedicated professional, and diligently works to keep progress fresh, even in these unprecedented times, which is admirable.
It is a pleasure working with Amy. She is thoughtful, attentive, and very insightful!
Amy utilizes resources to help her clients comprehensively. This gives a full wrap-around therapy experience which is really impactful. She’s helpful, knowledgeable, kind, and real.
Amy is really great! She helps me through many confusing situations and I don't feel so lost in situations that seemed impossible. Really responsive and awesome!
I haven’t been working with her for very long, but so far she has been very responsive and gives feedback/asks questions. I feel comfortable talking with her and I think so far she has demonstrated that she is capable and knows her stuff. I would definitely recommend her to others, in fact I have.
Amy is wonderful
Great communication
Amy has been heaven sent for me. She not only offers a listening ear and really helpful training for healing through my past trauma but she also is happy to just chit chat as-well and that means the world to me having someone just understand and not be too overwhelming at the same time. Would 10/10 recommend her to anyone who is feeling lost and non-trusting of therapy she is really warm and easy to talk to and offers training skills for you to take through your life with you. :)
I’m not big into counseling, have had many poor experiences in past. I have just started working with Amy, I find her approach refreshing and helpful.
I started counseling as a completely broken person. My marriage was failing, I had a tremendous amount of trauma in my early life, and I wasn't able to develop skills to handle my emotions and communicate my feelings. I'm far from "fixed," and I think I will always be a work-in-progress, but Amy is helping me ask those hard questions to myself. I had built a wall inside to protect myself; Amy is helping me chip and break it down.
My relationship with Amy has been very refreshing. She almost immediately identified the technique that would work for me and has been following up with me even when she doesn’t hear from me for a while. I like working with her and the skills she is teaching are exactly what I need in my life right now.
I appreciate how Amy allows me to share my thoughts at my own pace. I'm also very appreciative of how she goes out of her way to find and provide resources that could help me.
I have had a handful of counselors in my day and Amy is my absolute favorite. She is authentic and calls things as they are. I am so very appreciative of the DBT skills I have been learning from her. They have sincerely changed my life.
I absolutely loved my counselor she is so great and works with you to try and figure out what exactly is happening in your life and it seems like she does what she can whenever she can that’s the best thing about her.
I’ve only used BetterHelp for a short period of time but so far I am really finding it useful.
Amy is great! She makes it really interactive with videos and worksheets, and I find that I’m able to dig deeper into my goals that way. She is great and I’m so happy I was matched with her!
Amy is a thoughtful, educated, philosophical counselor who suggested a book to me for my further exploration for insights into how the education system is yielding to over-sensitized people, and how those people end up vexing me in the work place. Touché! A sad end to the Socratic method in universities, as well as a mine field in a business.
It’s still fairly early in my process with Amy, and we’re off to a good start. I think her counseling is helping so far.
Amy is the best counselor I have worked with!
I’ve enjoyed my time with Amy so far. I like that I can message her, and not feel like I have to get everything solved in one message. I know she’s there for me throughout the day/week.
Amy is awesome. I am very grateful for her expertise and support!
Amy has been so incredibly helpful for me. She is empathetic and a great listener and has also helped me actively pursue health. Her DBT trainings have helped me feel equipped to take on life and work through my anxiety instead of letting my anxiety take control of my life.
Amy is very nice, helpful and attentive. Her responses are frequent and her words show that she is truly taking your concerns into consideration to find the right solutions. I would highly recommend her!
I’ve only been working with her for a few weeks but she’s been extremely helpful for me since I’m going through a really rough patch in my life. She’s recommended books, videos she’s created, types of therapy, and ideas on how to get through my situation. She’s also a realist and blunt, that’s definitely what I prefer. I don’t want to be babied or have anything sugar coated so we are a good match.
Amy is incredible and takes the time to follow up and make sure that I'm considering my mental health. I trust her
Amy is very caring and respectful. She will listen when you want to speak and offers effective advice.
After trying several counselors over the past few years and being continually disappointed, I feel that Amy is a breath of fresh air. She really understands the challenges that I'm facing as a stepmom, a business owner and a human trying to stay in the present and feeling pulled in a zillion directions every single day. She is very knowledgable and is easy to talk to over email and 'face-to-face'. I'd highly recommend her to anyone looking for a kind, down-to-earth, open minded counselor.
In the short time I have been using Better Help and connecting with Amy Plumb my outlook has changed. I like how she asks me questions to guide me to think about my feelings and perceptions. I feel very confident In her expertise and knowledge and look forward to continuing my counseling with her.
In the short time I have worked with Ms. Plumb I am amazed at how helpful and beneficial an experience I’ve had. Her responses are quick, her tone is direct, yet caring, and she has an obvious depth of experience and knowledge backing her words up. She has an extensive set of tools available for any issue that may arise. Most importantly, she always comes across caring and non-judgmental. She has changed my mind about therapy and counseling and I look forward to working with her for the considerable future.
I am thankful that I encountered Amy on BetterHelp. I needed someone who could meet my needs for a quick pace of mindfulness training and regular checking-in. Amy was able to do that by sending me videos that I could watch around my busy schedule. She personalized the videos by checking in with me regularly and helping me tailor the lessons from the videos to my own life and needs. She was warm, but professional, and I trusted her expertise completely. I did not know that DBT and mindfulness training was something that I needed until I met Amy. Even if I am not in therapy for a long time, I will take the early lessons she guided me through with me in my life and use them as a basis for more DBT practice in the future.
Amy has been an open and confident counselor. I have improved greatly from her focused advice. I would highly recommend.
Amy is easy to talk to and professional. I can tell that she is highly trained and knowledgeable in her field. Amy has helped me to understand my brain and to get into healthy thinking habits. I look forward to learning more.
Amy Plumb is the most effective therapist I have ever worked with. I am very pleased with her level of expertise, professionalism, and what I have been able to accomplish while working with her. I cannot recommend her enough.
Amy has been very insightful, offering the right series of skills to help me take control of my own thinking and emotions. She is supportive and always responds from a place of reflection and non-judgment, which gives me greater insight into how to solve my own problems better, rather than stress further. Highly recommend her to anyone, especially if you're feeling "stuck" in life's patterns.
I appreciate the questions and how she keeps pace with my thoughts though it is probably difficult to string together themes via message. Several of her reflections and questions have been powerful for me. I look forward to scheduling a phone session in the future
Amy's no-nonsense but compassionate approach to my therapy falls perfectly in line with my needs
She’s great!
I really like the way she presents information.
Amy is the best <3
Amy is the most down to earth, practical but still empathetic counselor I have been to. Even when I am unsure of the direction the conversation might be going, she knows the right questions to ask to get to the root of the issue I am trying to resolve. Her suggested therapies for my treatment have been spot on so far. I am very grateful for her and will continue to recommend her to anyone who is searching for this type of counseling.
She challenges me to really be affective in making changes towards my personal goals and happiness.
She sent very useful resources in two formats to help formulate a plan for personal improvement. I have not been as communicative and I appreciate that she had checked in and that there’s effort to have someone who wants to help, if that makes any sense. Mental illness is such a bear. This makes it easier to parse when you just can’t handle being around people much.
So far she’s been fantastic and I really appreciate her validating my feelings and experiences. Thank you!
Right from the start I was impressed with Amy's professionalism, how seriously she took her work and how effective she was even when we were just texting. Things have been going well since I decided to get help and would definitely recommend this course of action for anyone trying to better their life.
Honestly she’s absolutely fantastic! She’s real and truly cares.
Messaging with Amy has been really helpful. I appreciate how quickly and thoughtfully she responds to my messages. I’ve felt more assured knowing that I can text her if something has happened.
I feel that she really knows the right questions to ask and I think she’s really patient and wonderful. I would recommend her to anyone wanting help in any of her specialties
Amy is an amazingly compassionate person, who shows exceptional skill as a therapist. She listens, identifies what's happening, and gives easily-understood and easily-implemented approaches to things. I came into therapy with a little hesitance and a lot of confusion, and within a short period gained a lot more insight into my situation, my feelings, and a lot more control over how I was responding to challenging circumstances. It was an awesome experience.
Amy is always very responsive and thought in her responses. I feel like she really listens to what I have to say, and can ask questions that bring the conversation to a deeper level. I would highly recommend Amy as a counselor.
Amy Plumb was a great mental help professional and she responded quickly to my messages with compassion and information to help me better understand some of the things I was going through and try to provide me with strategies for dealing with those things.
Amy is a great, she is clear. Realistic and provides you with thought provoking questions that allow you to dig deeper into what could be causing your issues.
Amy is amazing. I appreciate how she listens to me and I trust her expertise.
She seems very sharp, responsive, great communication, and gets to the heart of what you need.
She is a reliable source when my emotions are not stable.
Amy provides awesome insights!
She's open minded and timely in her responses. It's early but so far I'm glad I did this.