Amy Kilgore
Compassionate, faith-informed counseling for life challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed in
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Amy
Amy Kilgore is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPC) with 13 years of clinical experience. She approaches care from a faith-informed perspective tied to the gospel of Jesus Christ, which shapes her sense of hope and compassion. Amy focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, eating issues, parenting struggles, and anger.
Sessions are offered in English and she practices from Virginia.
Background and approach
Amy describes therapy as a collaborative process where clients bring expertise about their own lives. She uses practical tools and conversational coaching to help people name what matters, set small goals, and try new behaviors. Her work emphasizes safety and pacing when trauma or strong emotions are present.
Her clinical background includes training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and other trauma approaches. Amy also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), attachment-based ideas, and a client-centered stance when shaping treatment plans. She sees many concerns as linked to unresolved grief and fear and adapts methods to the person in front of her.
In sessions she aims to balance direct skill-building with listening and emotional support. She welcomes questions about how therapy might fit a family's needs and helps people clarify priorities before moving forward. Practical steps and steady encouragement are central to her style.
Amy values honesty and clear communication. Prospective clients are asked to consider whether her faith-informed approach fits their needs, and she invites people to discuss that topic openly during a first conversation.
How Amy’s approaches translate to online care
Amy commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that reflect their values; it’s useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method that helps reduce the intensity of traumatic memories through structured processing and guided attention.Choosing an approach is a collaborative step. Amy talks with each person about symptoms, goals, and comfort with different methods before deciding on a plan. She adjusts techniques over time and checks in regularly to make sure the work fits the person’s needs and preferences.
Online sessions can be offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes scheduling more flexible. These formats let people keep therapy going from home or between obligations, and they allow follow-up and brief check-ins when that helps progress. For people managing busy family schedules or mobility limits, the range of online options can make consistent care easier.
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
- 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
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