About Amberly
Amberly Escobar is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California with 12 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and depression.
Background and approach
She also works with those navigating major life changes. Amberly aims to make the first step feel manageable for people who are uncertain about starting therapy.
She offers a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about difficult feelings and memories. Sessions focus on understanding how past experiences shape present behavior.
Amberly supports practical steps for feeling steadier day to day and for moving forward after painful events. Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas and client-centered methods to strengthen relationships with self and others.
She also uses EMDR for trauma processing and motivational interviewing when people are shifting behaviors around substances or habits. Jungian and psychodynamic perspectives inform deeper work on meaning and inner patterns.
In session she listens closely and helps clients set clear, realistic goals. Conversations can range from short-term problem solving to exploring longer-standing patterns.
Amberly aims to match methods to each person’s needs rather than applying the same plan to everyone. She practices in California and offers several online options for sessions.
Amberly notes she cannot provide services to members with Kaiser insurance. If someone is ready to begin, she guides them through the first steps to set up care.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Amberly uses attachment-based therapy to help people notice how early relationships shape current feelings and reactions. This approach can help when someone struggles with trust, abandonment, or feeling disconnected from others. Client-centered therapy is another key method she uses; it centers the person's experience and helps them find their own solutions while the therapist listens and reflects.She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for processing traumatic memories when that is a good fit. EMDR aims to reduce the intensity of painful memories so day-to-day life feels less triggered. Amberly treats the choice of approach as collaborative and will work with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level.r>
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when helpful, phone sessions use less bandwidth, chat can work for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help fit therapy into workdays, caregiving routines, or other busy schedules while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English