Dr. Amy Cuellar

Dr. Amy Cuellar is a licensed psychologist in Texas with 17 years of clinical experience. She earned her PhD in clinical psychology on the adult track from the University of Miami and completed a pre-doctoral internship on the general track at the James A. Haley VA Hospital. She then pursued a post-doctoral fellowship at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center within the Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center.

Her clinical work centers on helping people move toward recovery from depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, stress, paranoia, and other problems in living so they can build lives of meaning. A large part of her practice involves helping clients identify and overcome obstacles to setting, achieving, and maintaining goals so they can live in ways that matter to them.

Dr. Cuellar’s theoretical orientation emphasizes cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and solution-focused therapy. She often uses CBT because it has the strongest scientific support for reducing symptoms, and she leans on solution-focused approaches when a client is navigating an adjustment or life transition. Across approaches her style is collaborative and grounded in a belief that people have the capacity to grow, change, and recover. She sees herself as a team member alongside the client, valuing the client’s self-knowledge as much as her clinical expertise, and aims to teach skills that enable clients to become their own therapists. She is licensed in Texas as a psychologist (license number 33368) and would be honored to be a partner on a client’s recovery journey.