Amy Kilgore, LPC

Amy Kilgore is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with 13 years of clinical experience. She brings a personal commitment to healing alongside her professional work and grounds her perspective in a faith-informed worldview. Amy focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, and grief with practical, down-to-earth care.

In sessions she listens first and asks simple questions to understand each person’s story. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking patterns and on acceptance and commitment strategies to clarify values and build small daily habits. Attachment-based ideas guide work on relationships and intimacy, and she also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) when trauma processing is needed.

Amy tends to work in a collaborative, respectful way. She helps people set concrete goals and practice skills between sessions. She also addresses related concerns such as eating issues, anger, bipolar mood patterns, parenting stress, and compassion fatigue.

Her background includes long-term clinical work across a range of concerns, with a special emphasis on trauma and addiction-related coping. She believes unresolved grief and fear often underlie other problems, and she focuses on manageable steps toward relief.

People who prefer straightforward conversations, clear tools, and a faith-aware perspective may find her approach a good fit. Prospective clients should follow the site’s booking steps to begin the matching process.

How her approaches work in online care

Amy uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in ways that translate well to remote sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaching practical coping skills for anxiety, mood, and eating concerns. Acceptance and commitment therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small committed steps toward those values while managing painful feelings.

She also uses EMDR for trauma processing when appropriate. EMDR is a structured approach that helps reduce the intensity of traumatic memories by pairing guided processing with bilateral stimulation and is often used for past trauma and abuse. The therapist and client discuss whether EMDR fits the person’s needs before beginning.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Amy will help clients decide which methods match their goals, symptoms, and comfort level. That decision is collaborative and may shift as people make progress.

Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm current session options before booking. Many people find online work helpful because it can fit into a busy day, cut travel time, and make it easier to attend regular appointments. Others appreciate shorter check-ins or sessions that reduce the need for camera time; the therapist will discuss practical arrangements when scheduling.