Amelia "Amie" Shipley

Amelia "Amie" Shipley is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, trauma, and issues related to women's lives. She frames therapy as a chance for growth and healing. Amie emphasizes strengths as well as struggles and aims to create a warm, direct, and collaborative atmosphere.

Amie pays close attention to emotions and bodily experience during sessions. She blends art-based activities, writing, and mindful movement with practical tools so clients can try new ways of coping. This can feel useful for people dealing with attachment wounds, abandonment, or the aftermath of sexual assault and abuse.

Her approach often includes somatic work and emotion-focused practices to help people notice how feelings show up in the body. She also draws on techniques from methods such as inner bonding and skills-based strategies to help manage intense emotions and build healthier patterns.

Amie brings creativity, humor, and direct communication into sessions. She treats each person as the expert on their life and works alongside them to set goals and try new options. People who are navigating blended family dynamics, workplace stress, gender dysphoria, or young adult transitions may find her focus areas relevant.

With 13 years of experience and a Washington LMHC credential, Amie offers therapy in English and accepts international clients. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule based on the therapist's availability.

How therapeutic approaches can work online

Amie integrates emotion-focused work and somatic approaches, which involve noticing feelings and how they show up in the body to help people process trauma and attachment wounds. These methods often use guided attention, breath, and movement to reconnect sensations with words, and can help with anxiety, shame, and embodied responses to stress.

She also uses art-based and experiential practices, like visual art, writing prompts, and mindful movement. These techniques invite new ways to express difficult feelings and try out shifts in perspective, which can be useful for mood issues, self-love work, and processing sexual assault or relational hurt.

Finding the right approach is collaborative. Amie will work with each person to identify goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful. She treats clients as partners in deciding which methods to use and when to change course.

The original profile does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow creative exercises to be done at home. Some techniques may be shortened to fit a quick check-in or adapted so they work without a full in-person setup.