About Amber
Amber Kissner is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Texas. She helps people facing addictions, LGBT-related concerns, trauma and abuse, anger, and low self-esteem. Amber also supports those coping with anxiety and depression.
Her style is direct and supportive, aimed at practical steps that feel doable. With five years of professional experience as an LCSW, she focuses on clear goals and steady progress. Amber treats each person as the expert on their own life.
Background and approach
She works together with clients to build on strengths and find what actually helps in day-to-day life. Sessions tend to be straightforward and action-oriented. Conversations explore triggers, patterns, and small changes that add up.
Amber uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide the work without jargon. She brings patience to difficult topics like addiction, shame, and past abuse. Amber helps people learn tools for anger management and to rebuild self-worth.
She also discusses practical coping strategies for chronic pain, illness, or other long-term struggles. Her approach is collaborative and respectful. Amber aims to make space for hard feelings while identifying steps forward.
She supports clients through setbacks and celebrates progress along the way.
Approaches that guide online care
Amber uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One approach concentrates on identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and replacing them with more adaptive habits; this helps with anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. Another approach emphasizes coping skills and safety planning for people dealing with addictions, anger, or trauma; it teaches step-by-step strategies to manage urges and strong emotions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Amber works with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and daily life. She adjusts the plan as progress is made, and she invites feedback so the work stays relevant and useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and texting offer quick check-ins, brief skill practice, or support between longer sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, appointments, and family obligations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English