Amber Wilder
Clear, calm guidance for life transitions
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed in
- Kansas, Nevada
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Amber
Amber Wilder is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 13 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, and other life challenges. She practices from Nevada and brings a calm, easygoing presence to sessions. Amber aims to make conversations feel low-pressure so clients can talk through what matters most.
She holds a master’s degree from Fort Hays State University and uses her training to support practical steps forward.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and nonjudgmental. Amber listens first, then blends approaches that fit each person. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy alongside acceptance-based and attachment-focused work.
She also applies EMDR when trauma processing is needed. Sessions focus on clear goals and finding strengths clients already have. Amber helps people practice new skills, reframe unhelpful thoughts, and build routines that reduce stress.
She offers a calm atmosphere where clients can try things at their own pace. In addition to core concerns like depression and relationship strain, Amber has worked with issues such as abandonment, caregiver stress, codependency, communication problems, and substance use. Her background includes both clinical work and independent practice settings across her career.
Amber is comfortable using several therapy tools and tailors interventions to the person in front of her. She aims to guide each person toward more meaningful, manageable daily life. If someone wants straightforward support and practical strategies, she focuses on doable steps that lead to change.
How Amber’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then choose actions that match their values. It’s useful when someone wants clearer priorities and more meaningful daily routines.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. It often includes practice between sessions to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress symptoms.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape expectations and current patterns. It can help with communication, intimacy-related worries, and family of origin concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amber will talk with clients about goals and preferences, then suggest one or a blend of methods. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options allow sessions from home, during work breaks, or while traveling. The variety makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue momentum between meetings.
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.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Kansas, Nevada
- Languages
- English
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