About Amy
Amy Svoboda is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, relationship struggles, and parenting concerns. She draws on 15 years of practice to guide clients through grief, bipolar mood concerns, intimacy issues, and compassion fatigue. Her approach is practical and steady, aimed at helping people feel more able to manage everyday pressures.
Amy uses a mix of somatic work and talk therapy to address how feelings show up in the body as well as the mind.
Background and approach
She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-focused ideas, client-centered listening, and cognitive behavioral techniques. Sessions focus on clear goals and skills people can use between meetings. She aims to tailor care to each person rather than apply one fixed method.
Intake conversations look at history, current stressors, and what a person most wants to change. From there she and the client choose strategies that fit the person’s pace and needs. Amy has worked in a variety of clinical roles and brings practical experience from many settings over her career.
She is comfortable addressing complex presentations and long-standing patterns, while also supporting short-term problem solving and coaching for life transitions. People who choose her often want straightforward guidance, compassionate listening, and tools that help them move forward. Her style blends warmth with structure so clients leave sessions with clarity and next steps.
How her approaches work online
Amy integrates somatic work with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-informed ideas to help clients address both body sensations and thought patterns. Somatic work looks at how stress and trauma show up in the body and uses simple awareness and breathing to reduce physical tension and increase regulation. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and values-based action, helping people move toward a meaningful life even with difficult feelings. Attachment-based ideas explore relational patterns and how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional responses.Choosing an approach is a team effort. Amy listens to each person’s history, goals, and day-to-day needs and then suggests methods to try. She adapts pace and techniques over time so the work fits what the client wants and tolerates, and she checks in regularly to see what's helping.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, practice skills between meetings, and keep continuity when life is unpredictable. Many people find that having multiple ways to connect supports steady progress and makes work on stress, relationships, and mood more accessible.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English