Amber Sorsek

Amber Sorsek is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (NM LCSW C-11763) and a graduate of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work master’s program. She completed her degree in 2017 and began practicing as an LMSW in 2018, serving families and individuals as a hospital social work case manager and working in private practice as a therapist.
She trained and began practicing Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) in 2019 and continued providing therapy via telehealth through the COVID-19 pandemic until accepting a role as a telehealth counselor for New Mexico Treatment Services, an addiction treatment and methadone clinic. She moved to Japan and obtained her LCSW in 2020. As an LCSW she served families, couples, and children in the military community as the Family Advocacy Treatment Manager. Amber has five years of clinical experience.

Her approach to therapy is trauma-informed and informed by ecological systems theory, which explores how physical, social, political, and cultural systems shape an individual’s experience. She maintains a person-centered, non-judgmental stance and strives to see each person’s experiences from their point of view. Amber emphasizes collaboration in the healing process and views partnership with clients as central to therapeutic work.

Amber practices a range of therapies including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Problem-Solving Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Narrative Therapy. She is certified in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) through Evergreen Certifications, and the DBT model guides her overall approach to individual counseling by helping clients identify and build strengths, process emotions, develop acceptance, and choose nondestructive behaviors.
She received EMDR training through the River’s Edge Institute and is certified in that approach; she conducts assessments and reviews the risks and benefits of EMDR with clients to determine the best trauma treatment strategy and works to reduce trauma symptoms while maintaining safety. For couples work she uses the Gottman Method, aiming to reduce verbal conflict and increase intimacy, respect, and affection by building empathy and understanding, and she collaborates with couples to identify concerns and set shared goals.