Amelia "Amie" Shipley , LMHC

Amelia "Amie" Shipley helps people who are worn down by stress, anxiety, relationship pain, or trauma. She focuses on practical steps and creative ways to feel steadier. Amie speaks plainly and listens for strengths people already have. She is an LMHC with 13 years of experience and is based in Washington.

Amie uses an emotion- and body-focused style that brings attention to how feelings show up in the body. She blends hands-on somatic exercises with art, writing, and movement to help people access and express what’s hard to say. Sessions often include simple tools clients can try between meetings.

Her work covers concerns such as depression, workplace stress, relationship and attachment struggles, and the aftermath of sexual assault and abuse. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, guilt and shame, gender dysphoria, seasonal affective disorder, somatization, blended family challenges, and issues common to young adults.

Amie favors a collaborative process. She helps clients identify patterns that get in the way and then experiments with new ways of responding. Humor and genuine connection are part of the room, along with practical skill-building and emotional exploration.

Sessions may use visual art, mindful movement, or brief writing prompts when those approaches fit a person’s needs. Amie works with English-speaking clients and accepts people from outside the United States who choose to meet online.

Approaches that use body and creativity online

Amie often works with emotion-focused and somatic approaches. Emotion-focused work centers on naming and feeling emotions so people can respond differently to painful patterns. Somatic methods bring attention to body sensations and simple movement to shift how emotions are held in the body.

She also integrates creative expression such as visual art and writing to access feelings that are hard to say out loud. These techniques can help with trauma, attachment concerns, shame, and relationship struggles by offering new ways to process experience and practice responses.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that fit their goals, comfort, and pace. That might mean trying art-based prompts one week and brief somatic grounding the next, then adjusting based on what helps.

Online therapy via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging makes this flexibility easier. Video allows movement and art sharing, phone works for shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and try different tools in ways that feel manageable.