Amy Oxendine
Compassionate, practical therapy for life challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Amy
Amy Oxendine is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in North Carolina. She has seven years of clinical experience and focuses on practical help for common problems parents and adults face. Her work covers stress, anxiety, depression, attention concerns, addiction, grief, parenting, and relationship issues among others.
She keeps sessions straightforward and goal-oriented. Amy draws on client-centered skills to listen and understand each person. She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot patterns that keep problems going and practical tools to change them.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in a range of settings such as mental health agencies, hospitals, schools, group homes, and child protective services. That variety informs a flexible approach when working with different life challenges. She also has experience supporting veterans with depression, anxiety, trauma, and medical or psychosocial concerns.
Amy blends motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change. She adapts techniques because a single method does not suit everyone. In sessions she focuses on small, achievable steps that move toward the client’s goals.
She speaks English and provides services in North Carolina. Amy describes herself as compassionate, energetic, and motivated to help clients make progress and reach their goals.
Therapy approaches and online options
Amy uses client-centered therapy to start most work. That means she listens closely and follows what matters most to the client, helping set goals together and shaping sessions around the person’s priorities.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and habits and replacing them with practical, testable strategies. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Amy works collaboratively to figure out which methods fit a person’s needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts as progress is made.
Online therapy gives practical flexibility. Video calls can mirror an in-person visit, while phone sessions remove travel time. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter, focused exchanges when that works better. These formats can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy family life and to maintain steady progress over time.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
Next step
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