About Amberly
Amberly Escobar is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in California with 12 years of experience. She guides people through stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and depression in a calm and practical way. Amberly aims to create a welcoming space where clients can speak frankly about difficult feelings without being judged.
She focuses on helping people move forward from past experiences and build a clearer sense of direction. Sessions often combine attention to bodily experience with exploring relationship patterns and personal meaning.
Background and approach
That can look like noticing how the body reacts during a memory, talking through attachment and loss, or mapping out steps to manage cravings or panic. Amberly uses approaches rooted in somatic awareness, attachment-based thinking, and client-centered care. She also draws on EMDR and Jungian ideas when those methods fit a client's goals.
Her style is practical and collaborative - she talks with people about what feels most useful and adjusts the work along the way. Many clients come for help with life transitions such as separation, grief, midlife questions, or career change. Others seek support for post-traumatic stress, panic attacks, or struggles with guilt and shame.
Amberly respects each person's pace and helps them find small, steady steps forward. She is not able to provide services to members with Kaiser insurance coverage. Sessions are offered in English and provided through a variety of online formats.
Approaches that translate to online work
Somatic work pays attention to bodily sensations and movement as part of healing. In online sessions this can mean guided breathing, tracking physical reactions during a memory, and learning ways to calm the nervous system at home. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online conversations can map those patterns, identify repeating dynamics, and practice new ways of relating in everyday life.Finding the right approach is part of the process and happens collaboratively. The therapist will discuss options like somatic awareness or attachment-focused work together with the client, and adapt methods to fit the person's goals and comfort level. Clients help shape which techniques get used and when to try different methods.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, keep continuity during moves or travel, and continue work between in-person visits. Licensed professionals can use these options to tailor pacing, check in between sessions, and support practical skill-building in the client’s everyday environment.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English