Hi, I’m Amy!

I am a licensed clinical mental health counselor and the founder of Greater Peace and creator of the Greater Peace Method.

For several years, I’ve focused on helping people foster healing, resilience, and wellness. I have extensive experience in working with people who have experienced grief, domestic violence, sexual abuse, and narcissistic abuse, as well as addiction (substance and sexual behaviors or compulsions), and other unwanted behaviors. I have worked with typical behavioral interventions and have watched repeated failed attempts at “white knuckling” or willpower compound shame and hopelessness. This led me to seek more effective ways to facilitate meaningful change in the lives of those I work with.

Combining my education, experience, specialized training, and drawing on my extensive study of human development and various spiritual practices, I created the Greater Peace Method. 

I have a passion for treating the whole person, by addressing presenting problems as well as rooting out their underlying causes or meanings. I also have a knack for creating personalized treatment, utilizing a combination or hybrid of EMDR, A.R.T, parts work, and other techniques to address the root causes of behaviors and negative thoughts, which leads to a more holistic healing.

The core principles of this approach are integral to the treatment, driving healing, understanding, and change. Supported by practical, lifelong skills, these elements include:

• Connection with True Self and strengthening identity through higher consciousness.
• Strengthening internal compass/intuition to increase a sense of peace.
• Development of personal partnership with higher power.
• Enhancing self-compassion, compassion for others, personal authority, and overall well-being.

Helping clients through this method has been incredibly rewarding. Each day, I witness profound courage and transformation. This transformation and my own, as I have worked to apply these principles in my own life,  is the motivation behind creating a practice anchored in this approach.

Specialized Training:

• Certified Advanced Traumatic Stress Treatment Specialist:  9-month course with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk- author of “The Body Keeps the Score” and considered the world leader in trauma treatment. 
  
  
• Substance Use Disorder Counselor (SUDC): Certification and experience in residential treatment.
  
  
• Mentorship with Dr. Kevin Skinner: A worldwide leading authority on the treatment of betrayal trauma, sexual compulsion, & infidelity. 
  
  
• Training in EMDR, Accelerated Resolution Therapy (A.R.T.), CBT, and Internal Family Systems (IFS/parts work).