- Years in practice
- 16
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- LGBT
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Amy
Amy Montoya is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado with 16 years of clinical experience and a long history in social services. She draws on past roles that include work in nursing home social services to inform practical support for adults facing life transitions. She aims to create a respectful and compassionate space for people to begin change.
Amy focuses on issues such as parenting concerns, trauma and abuse, depression, anxiety, stress, and relationship struggles.
Background and approach
She also addresses challenges related to grief, addictions, intimacy, self-esteem, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Her work includes supporting people through blended family issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and caregiver stress. Her approach adapts to each person's goals.
She uses client-centered methods and evidence-informed tools to help people identify patterns and build new strategies. Sessions often involve talking through current problems, practicing coping skills, and setting realistic steps for change. Amy emphasizes collaboration.
She tailors discussion and plans to match each person's situation and comfort level. The focus is on small, achievable shifts rather than quick fixes. She encourages parents who feel overwhelmed to reach out and talk through practical parenting challenges.
Many people contact her seeking clearer routines, better communication, and relief from daily stressors. Amy offers straightforward guidance and steady support to help people move toward greater balance.
What Amy works with
Everything Amy lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Amy helps people with.
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Amy lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Amy commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy to prioritize each person’s goals and pace. This approach emphasizes listening, understanding, and shaping sessions around what the client says matters most, which can help people clarify parenting priorities and emotional needs.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a hands-on method that helps identify unhelpful thoughts and build different behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and parenting routines because it breaks problems into manageable steps and practices new responses.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Amy will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. The process is collaborative and adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful when visual connection matters, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging suits brief updates or days when a longer session is hard to fit in. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around family life and busy days.
Questions people ask about Amy
What concerns does she commonly address?
Amy helps people facing parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, depression, anxiety, stress, relationship struggles, grief, addictions, and self-esteem issues.
What is her therapy style like?
She blends client-centered care with practical techniques to identify patterns and develop new coping skills in a collaborative way.
How much experience does she bring?
She has 16 years of experience and a background in nursing home social services that informs her approach to caregiving and life-change issues.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in Colorado.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are offered?
Sessions can be arranged as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions are provided through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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