Amy McKinney

Amy McKinney is a clinical psychologist with ten years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, addiction, anger, and mood concerns. She offers steady, practical support for people trying to cope with life changes, career pressures, parenting strain, or relationship and intimacy difficulties. Amy works to help clients find more realistic and kinder ways of seeing themselves in the present.

She began her career treating soldiers in the military, and that background informs her work with trauma and grief. Amy uses straightforward talk therapy to help people reframe unhelpful thoughts and build new habits. She aims to help clients gain more confidence, calmer days, and a clearer sense of direction.

Amy draws on several evidence-informed approaches, including acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior skills, client-centered listening, and EMDR for trauma-related processing. In sessions she blends practical skill-building with exploration of values and meaning. The work tends to focus on small, manageable steps rather than large leaps.

She offers a warm, down-to-earth style and encourages humor as a coping tool when appropriate. People meet Amy to talk through difficult memories, manage strong emotions like anger, build better sleep and daily routines, or find focus after major life shifts. Her goal is to help each person leave therapy with tools they can use in everyday life.

Amy is licensed in Wyoming as WY Psychologist 607 and conducts sessions in English. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to availability.

Approaches you can try in online sessions

Amy often draws on acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavioral therapy, and EMDR when trauma is central. Acceptance and commitment work focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while accepting uncomfortable feelings. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thought patterns and then tests and changes them with practical exercises. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, or EMDR, is an approach used for processing troubling memories and reducing the emotional charge they carry.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, daily life, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they try methods and adjust them as needed so the work fits the client's needs and preferences.

Session formats are not listed in the biography, so please confirm current options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It also makes it possible to continue regular work on sleep, mood, anger management, and trauma processing without needing to change daily routines.