Amy Kilgore

Amy Kilgore is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Virginia with 13 years of clinical experience. She brings a personal and professional perspective to therapy and centers her work on hope, healing, and practical change. Amy emphasizes respect for each person's story and aims to create a space where people can name what feels hard and begin to move forward.

Her approach blends several evidence-based methods to address stress, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help identify unhelpful thinking patterns and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas to support values-driven action. Attachment-focused work and client-centered listening guide conversations about relationships, intimacy, and family dynamics.

Amy often supports people facing addictions, grief, eating concerns, anger, and the strain of major life changes. She also focuses on issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, attachment concerns, body image, and codependency. Her practice includes work with dissociation, bereavement, and relational separation.

Therapy with Amy tends to be collaborative and straightforward. She asks about what matters most to the person and helps set practical goals. Sessions typically involve talking through current difficulties, learning coping skills, and trying small changes between meetings.

Those interested in starting can complete the site's short matching questionnaire to schedule according to the therapist's availability. Amy respects faith as part of many clients' lives and integrates clients' values when requested.

How these approaches guide online work

Amy uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy in her practice. ACT helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck and focus on actions that match their values. Attachment work looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people change how they connect and respond to others. Client-centered therapy prioritizes the person's experience, with the therapist listening closely and reflecting what matters most to the client.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Amy will work collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person's goals and preferences. That decision is flexible and can change as needs evolve during therapy.

Session formats are not specified in the provided biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, like squeezing a check-in into a break or joining from a different location when travel is required. It can also allow shorter or more frequent contacts when that matches a person's needs. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises, homework, and trauma-focused techniques such as EMDR-informed strategies to an online setting when clinically appropriate and agreed on by both parties.