About Amber
Amber Williams is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on client-centered care. She uses a direct, open approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship strain. Amber draws on 15 years of experience across community mental health, outpatient settings, skilled living facilities, and nonprofit healthcare.
She has worked with people involved in social services, law enforcement, and the military in roles that included foster care, adoption, and criminal justice settings.
Background and approach
Amber holds a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Tennessee at Martin and a Master of Social Work from Western Kentucky University. Her licenses include TN LCSW 6841 and FL LCSW SW16737. In sessions she centers the person and encourages active participation.
She uses motivational interviewing to help clients notice what matters and to build motivation for change. Cognitive techniques are used when helpful to reframe unhelpful thoughts and reduce overwhelming feelings. Amber also uses solution-focused and trauma-informed strategies to build practical tools.
She helps people set small goals, try new coping skills, and solve problems that feel stuck. She emphasizes supports people already have, such as friends or family, while teaching new skills when needed. Her typical concerns include anger, grief, parenting strain, career stress, compassion fatigue, and identity questions like LGBT issues or body image.
Amber aims to help people feel more steady, make clearer choices, and take steps toward everyday functioning and meaning.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Amber commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on listening, understanding each person’s goals, and tailoring sessions to their pace. This approach helps people who need a supportive space to talk through decisions, identity questions, family worries, or self-esteem concerns.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT can help reduce anxiety, manage mood symptoms, and tackle patterns that get in the way of daily life. Trauma-Focused Therapy is used when past events are affecting present functioning; it focuses on stabilizing emotions, processing difficult memories, and rebuilding a sense of safety and control.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about your goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together you will try methods that fit your needs and adjust as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets you use visual cues and longer conversations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quicker check-ins, and messaging works well for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work even when schedules or locations change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Tennessee
- Languages
- English