About Amy
Amy Kilgore is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with 13 years of professional experience. She brings a personal and professional perspective to therapy and centers her work on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions. Amy frames her work around compassion and a hopeful outlook informed by her worldview.
She uses a range of talk and body-focused approaches to help clients manage difficult memories and strong emotions.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to focus on grounding strategies, practical coping skills, and clearer ways to communicate personal needs. Amy often blends attention to bodily experience with thought-focused tools to reduce distress. Her background includes work with people facing addiction, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, eating issues, parenting strain, and mood difficulties such as bipolar symptoms.
She also attends to attachment wounds, abandonment themes, and dissociation when those show up in sessions. Her experience spans many clinical concerns rather than a single narrow specialty. Amy describes therapy as collaborative.
She treats each person as the expert on their own story and helps them find paths that feel manageable and meaningful. Progress is approached step by step, with attention to both feelings and behaviors. Practical details are handled in a straightforward way.
Sessions can take place by video, phone, chat, or text messaging. People who speak English and live in Virginia can work with her through the service.
Approaches that combine body awareness and practical tools
Amy draws from Somatic work to help people notice how stress and trauma show up in the body. This kind of attention can help when feelings feel stuck or when physical tension makes emotions harder to handle.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify values and take small, meaningful steps toward them. ACT focuses on accepting difficult thoughts while committing to actions that matter to the person.
Attachment-Based Therapy is another part of her toolbox, addressing patterns in close relationships and early connection wounds. This approach can help people understand why they repeat certain relational behaviors and learn new ways to connect.
Finding the best approach is a team effort. Amy will work with each person to figure out which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts strategies over time so sessions feel relevant and manageable.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule and to keep continuity when life changes. Many people find remote work helps them try techniques in real time and apply skills between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English