About Amy
Amy Brant is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in Indiana who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, grief, and life transitions.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing addiction, trauma and abuse, intimacy challenges, eating concerns, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, career stress, compassion fatigue, and ADHD. Amy brings 30 years of experience working in education and counseling to her practice.
Amy began her career in 1998 as a teacher for students with special needs and later worked as a public school guidance counselor. She completed her LMFT credential after seeing how family history and early relationships shape adult choices and behavior.
That background informs the way she listens and responds to each person who reaches out. Her style adapts to the needs of the person in front of her.
Some situations lend themselves to shorter, solution-focused work. Other issues require more collaborative, educational sessions and time to process past events.
Amy aims to match the approach to the concern and the individual’s goals. In sessions she offers calm, direct listening and practical tools.
She uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment-Based methods, Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills, and client-centered techniques as fits the situation. The work can include skill building, emotion regulation, and exploring how early patterns affect current choices.
Amy focuses on helping people make changes they can carry into daily life. She frames goals around real-world steps and supports clients as they try new ways of coping and relating.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then focus on values-based steps forward; it can help with anxiety, depression, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at patterns of thought and behavior to find small, testable changes that reduce distress and improve functioning. Attachment-Based Therapy examines how early relationships shape current expectations and communication, which can help with intimacy and family patterns.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, history, and preferences, then suggest which methods to try. That plan can be adjusted over time based on what is helpful and what the person wants to get out of sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which let people fit therapy into busy lives. Video offers face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter option is needed. Live chat and text messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, tracking skills between sessions, or ongoing support without scheduling a full call.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English