Amy Dong, AMFT

Specializes in relationships, anxiety, trauma, couples work, depression, entrepreneurship, grief, and the mind-body connection

** Amy is currently accepting virtual clients only through mid-August 2024**

Approach

Life can be overwhelming, exhausting, and messy. And we often find ourselves in a season that requires a little more support. Therapy is a space for us to process our experiences, understand their impact, and cultivate compassion as we grow toward well-being.

Amy supports individuals, couples, and teens in healing anxiety, burnout, relationship struggles, life transitions, self-esteem, and trauma with an integrative, nervous-system-oriented approach. She takes a non-pathologizing stance and aims to create a warm, compassionate container for exploration.

With a background in start-ups and entrepreneurship, Amy enjoys working with professionals and creatives alike to explore fulfillment, burnout, balance, and purpose. Working with Amy, you’ll start by slowing down. When we slow down, there’s more to see, feel, and notice. And once we’re able to observe patterns, habits, thought cycles, relationship tendencies, emotional resistance, and somatic responses, there’s so much more to explore. Only then can we move toward intentional change.

She practices from an integrative and holistic lens, incorporating somatic techniques, parts work, compassion-focused, and attachment theory. She takes a collaborative approach, emphasizing that clients know themselves best.

Additionally, she often incorporates holistic approaches (mindfulness, meditation, movement, and breathwork) to support clients in holding emotional or overwhelming experiences.

Supervised by Julia Winters, LCSW 73643.

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Education

Bachelor’s of Psychology and Communication from the University of California, Santa Barbara

M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Santa Clara University - Emphasis in Health & Positive Psychology

Specialized Training

Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Program, led by The Embody Lab (2023)