Amy Phelps, LPC
Compassionate, practical counseling for everyday life
Explore online therapy options- Years in practice
- 18
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Amy
Amy Phelps is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oklahoma. She brings 18 years of clinical work to sessions and focuses on practical, person-centered care for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, parenting concerns, addiction, trauma, and relationship struggles. Amy uses simple, straightforward language in sessions.
She emphasizes partnership and gentle honesty while helping clients name problems and try small changes. Her own long recovery journey informs how she talks about addiction and resilience without making assumptions about any one person.
Background and approach
Her background includes work as a clinician and as a clinical supervisor and director. That leadership experience shapes how she organizes treatment and coordinates care when needed. Amy values ongoing learning and follows evidence-based methods alongside clinical intuition.
Therapeutic work often combines acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive tools and emotion-focused listening. She also draws on attachment ideas to look at how past relationships shape current patterns. Sessions tend to be practical, goal-oriented, and tuned to each person’s pace.
The approach is flexible and tailored. Amy describes therapy as a collaborative process where goals are set together and adjusted over time. People who want a direct but compassionate guide for change often find this style helpful.
What Amy works with
Everything Amy lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Amy helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Amy lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches and how they translate online
Amy commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Attachment-Based Therapy alongside client-centered work. ACT helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people change unhelpful interaction styles.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amy treats selection as a collaborative process, trying methods, checking in, and shifting course based on each person’s goals and comfort. She will talk through options and help pick tools that fit the concern at hand.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for that process. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging work well for brief check-ins, journaling prompts, or stepping through skills between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around parenting, work, and other daily demands while using the same therapeutic approaches Amy practices in live sessions.
Questions people ask about Amy
What concerns does she help with?
Amy supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, parenting worries, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, sleep problems, and many related concerns listed in her specialties.
What is her general therapy style?
She uses a person-centered, collaborative style with gentle directness. Sessions focus on self-discovery, practical steps, and adjusting goals together.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 18 years of experience working as a clinician and in supervisory roles, including time as a clinical director and supervisor.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Oklahoma.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English only.
What session formats are offered?
Therapy is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist arrangements; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, filling out a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to therapist availability.
More therapists for parents in Oklahoma
All in Oklahoma
Audrey Kelly
LMFT
Oklahoma 21 years in practice
Practical, experience-based support for parenting and relationships
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship
- Family
Kimberlee Thomas
LPC
Oklahoma 31 years in practice
Support for parents navigating stress and change
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship
- Self esteem
Oklahoma 7 years in practice
Supportive counselor for parenting and life change
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship
- Grief