Amy Matthews

Amy Matthews is an LMHC with 39 years of professional counseling experience. She earned a Master’s degree in 1980 in Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling and spent 28 years working as a high school counselor in Pennsylvania while maintaining a practice. After relocating to Florida, she continued clinical work in a practice setting serving adolescents and adults and also works with families and couples.

Amy describes herself as an eclectic counselor who integrates multiple clinical approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and psychodynamic methods. Her areas of focus include stress and anxiety, relationships, parenting and blended family issues, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy concerns, eating and sleeping difficulties, self-esteem and body image, ADHD and bipolar concerns, and caregiver and compassion fatigue stress.

She notes that life experience informs her clinical work and that she has participated in therapy herself on multiple occasions. Amy characterizes her style as genuine, supportive, empathetic, liberal and non-judgmental, and she often uses a sense of humor in sessions. Prospective clients are invited to reach out and begin a conversation.