Amy Ort, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
I am a licensed marriage and family therapist with over 20 years of experience helping clients address emotional experiences that create distress and interfere with well-being. Working together collaboratively, we explore aspects of the change process: awareness of the primary issues, goals for change, thoughtfulness about what change will mean in your life, and honoring your strengths while working to implement change. I help clients consider the influence of past relationships and experiences on current thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in order to increase self-awareness, shift perceptions, decrease emotional distress, and improve coping skills, communication and relationships.
My style is warm, non-judgmental, and respectful. I plan my approach to best match the person I'm seeing, offering both short-term, pragmatic, solution-oriented therapy, and longer-term treatment that involves complex historical material and ingrained self-defeating patterns. I operate from a family-systems background, incorporating techniques such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), distress tolerance skills from Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Relaxation, and Guided Imagery.
I am LGBTQIA+ affirming, with awareness of the effects of systemic oppression as well as deep respect for all people. I specialize in helping clients with a variety of issues, including depression, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma, grief, stress, parenting and blended families. I work primarily with individual adults as well as couples. My goal is to help you identify and reach your treatment goals so that you can live with greater peace and connection with yourself and in your relationships.