Amy Seligson , LPC

Amy Seligson followed a personal path into counseling that began with her own early therapy experience. She learned as a child how talking with a counselor could ease the pain of a family transition. That experience inspired her to pursue helping others and shaped her decision to work in mental health.

Amy holds a Master of Counseling from Wayne State University and is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC. She has worked as a special education teacher and as a counselor. Those roles gave her direct experience supporting people through stressful life changes.

Her background includes hands-on time with children, adolescents, teens, and parents. That experience informs how she listens and responds in sessions. She tends to focus on practical skills and steady support rather than long, abstract explanations.

Amy commonly works with relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, parenting stress, anxiety, depression, and addictions. She also addresses codependency, divorce and separation, domestic violence, and challenges like guilt, shame, and isolation.

In sessions she draws on client-centered approaches alongside cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior tools. She uses mindfulness and existential ideas when they help a person make sense of values and meaning. Her style aims to be warm, direct, and focused on small, manageable steps.

Based in Colorado, Amy communicates in English and brings three years of counseling experience to her practice. She often helps clients build self-compassion, stronger boundaries, and clearer plans for change.

Approaches and how they work online

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and helping a person find their own answers. It emphasizes empathy and working at the client's pace, which can make online sessions feel collaborative and gentle for sensitive topics.

Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches concrete tools to change them. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and some addiction-related patterns and fits well into short video or phone sessions where homework and skill practice are assigned between meetings.

Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. Those skills are practical for relationship stress, intense emotions, and impulsive behaviors and can be taught through brief live teaching, chat exercises, and ongoing messaging support.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, then suggest methods to try. Clients and therapist can adapt the plan over time based on what works best.

Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people see facial cues and practice skills together. Phone sessions work when video isn't possible or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow short check-ins, quick coping reminders, and ongoing support between sessions to help maintain momentum.