Amber Rentfro (Dealy)
Calm guidance for everyday parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Amber
Amber Rentfro (Dealy) is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri who brings personal experience and professional training to her work. She chose this path after her own healing journey and now uses that perspective to support others facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, addictions, and related challenges.
Her approach is warm and direct, aiming to help people feel seen and to build practical skills for daily life. She combines several evidence-based methods to tailor care to each person.
Background and approach
Amber uses cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She draws on dialectical behavior therapy tools to teach emotional regulation and coping skills. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, or EMDR, is part of her toolbox for processing traumatic memories.
Sessions focus on clear goals and steady progress. Amber favors straightforward conversation and practical exercises. She pays attention to relationships, identity, parenting concerns, and life transitions that often accompany emotional pain.
Her training includes work with grief, co-occurring disorders, and complex trauma. Amber has three years of professional experience as an LPC and continues to learn through practice and supervision. Her work combines client-centered listening with structured techniques to help people move forward.
Outside of sessions she prioritizes compassionate support and honest curiosity. Parents and caregivers looking for practical strategies and emotional support may find her style accessible and grounded. Amber meets clients where they are and helps them take the next step toward feeling better.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small, guided steps toward those values. It focuses on actions rather than getting stuck in difficult thoughts and is often useful for stress, anxiety, and decisions about life direction.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It teaches practical skills to change patterns that cause distress and is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and coping with change.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a method used to reduce the intensity of painful memories. When appropriate, it is used to process trauma and help lessen its emotional hold.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Amber will collaborate with each person to choose and adapt techniques based on needs, goals, and preferences. That process can include trying different methods and noting what feels most helpful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet without traveling. Video calls provide face-to-face time, phone sessions work for quick check-ins, and live chat or text-based messaging fit into busy days. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing family, work, and daily tasks.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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