Amy Montoya , LPC

Amy Montoya is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Colorado with 16 years of experience in behavioral health. She draws on a long history of clinical and social services work to help people facing stress, depression, trauma, and relationship struggles. Amy aims to treat everyone with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.

She uses straightforward conversation to identify what matters most to each person. Sessions are shaped around individual goals and practical next steps. Amy encourages small, achievable changes that add up over time.

Her background includes long-term work in nursing home social services alongside clinical counseling. That mix gave her experience with grief, caregiving stress, aging concerns, and chronic illness. She brings that experience into sessions when those issues are relevant.

Amy works with a wide range of concerns including LGBT-related issues, family conflict, trauma and abuse, anxiety, addictions, and parenting challenges. She also supports people coping with life transitions, self-esteem struggles, and intimacy-related issues.

In practice she draws from client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior ideas, emotionally focused work, and EMDR for trauma processing. Amy adapts these approaches to fit each person’s needs rather than using a single template.

People who prefer clear plans and collaborative problem-solving tend to find her style helpful. She focuses on realistic strategies and steady progress, and she works with clients to set goals that match their day-to-day lives.

Approaches that translate to online care

Amy commonly uses client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and EMDR to guide online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, building trust, and letting the person lead the pace of change; it helps when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to sort through feelings. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it helps with anxiety, depression, and stress management. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is a structured method for processing traumatic memories and reducing their emotional intensity; it is used when trauma or abuse is a central concern.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will discuss options and work together with the client to pick methods that match the client’s goals, history, and comfort level. That collaborative planning can include combining techniques or pacing work differently depending on needs.

Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people keep face-to-face interaction without travel, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and messaging supports short reflections between appointments. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity when schedules change.