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Amy Cooper, LPC

  • Experience8 years
  • LocationColorado
  • Focus areasStress and Anxiety, Addictions, and Trauma and abuse
  • Therapy approachesInternal Family Systems and Client-Centered Therapy
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About Amy

Amy Cooper is an LPC based in Colorado who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, relationship concerns, and life transitions.

Background and approach

She draws on eight years of clinical experience to support clients working through grief, intimacy-related issues, self-esteem and depression, as well as challenges such as codependency, caregiver stress, and body image concerns. Amy also brings a harm-reduction orientation to addiction work and attention to attachment and abandonment themes when they arise.

Her approach blends Internal Family Systems with client-centered and cognitive behavioral techniques to meet each person where they are. Training in trauma-informed care, including work influenced by Stephanie Covington, informs how she helps clients process painful experiences without retraumatization.

Amy integrates mindfulness and motivational interviewing tools to build coping skills, increase self-awareness, and support change at a pace that feels manageable. In sessions she offers practical education alongside empathic listening, adapting plans to suit individual goals and preferences.

She invites clients to approach therapy as a collaborative journey and aims to create a space where difficult feelings and thoughts can be explored honestly and safely.

Approaches and flexibility for effective online care

The therapist uses Internal Family Systems to help clients understand and relate to internal parts - gentle, curiosity-based work that can reduce inner conflict and help with trauma, anxiety, or self-critical patterns. She also incorporates Client-Centered Therapy, which emphasizes empathic listening and collaboration so the client's own priorities and strengths guide the process. Additionally, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, offering concrete tools for symptoms like anxiety, low mood, and stress.

Finding the right fit is part of the work and Amy approaches this collaboratively; she will discuss goals, preferences, and needs and adapt methods as progress unfolds. Clients and therapist decide together which approaches to prioritize and when to introduce different techniques, keeping the pace manageable and responsive to change.

Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to access regular care from Colorado-based licensed professionals. These formats allow scheduling flexibility, continuity during life transitions, and multiple ways to communicate so therapy can fit into varied routines while still using the same clinical approaches and collaborative planning.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does she commonly address?
Amy works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy-related difficulties, depression, self-esteem, anger, and career or life change challenges.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is integrative and client-centered, combining empathic listening with practical interventions from CBT, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to tailor treatment to each person.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has eight years of professional experience working with people across concerns such as substance use, trauma, eating and body image issues, and relationship challenges.
What credentials and location are on record?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Colorado; licence reference CO LPC LPC.0014256 is on file.
Can sessions be offered in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not currently accepting international clients.
Which session formats are available?
She conducts therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide several remote options for care.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are delivered via a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are required to begin work together?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyAddictionsTrauma and abuseCareer difficultiesCoping with life changes

Also works with

LGBTRelationship issuesGriefIntimacy-related issuesAnger managementSelf esteemDepressionCoachingCompassion fatigue

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAttachment issuesBody imageCaregiver issues and stressCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesDependent personalityDissociationDomestic violenceDrug and alcohol addictionEating and food-related issuesFamily problemsFertility issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameImpulsivityInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMen's issuesMoney and financial issuesMood disordersMulticultural concernsPanic disorder and panic attacksPost-traumatic stressPrejudice and discriminationProcess addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)Self-loveSex addictionSexual assault and abuseSexualitySocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Mindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingSolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

8+ years

Licensed

Colorado

Languages

English