About Amy
Amy Keller is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 31 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people strengthen self-esteem and develop a kinder relationship with themselves. Amy works with individuals who are sorting out communication problems, questions about life purpose, and persistent guilt or shame.
Her style is client-centered and respectful of personal values. Sessions focus on listening closely, naming what matters, and finding steps that feel doable.
How Amy works
She aims to create a space where people feel heard and understood while they work through painful memories or confusing feelings. Amy has guided people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, and the emotional weight of caregiving. She also supports people facing divorce or separation, blended family challenges, and the emptiness that can follow major life changes.
Practical skills and steady encouragement are common parts of her work. Other focus areas include personality-related concerns such as avoidant, dependent, or antisocial patterns, dissociation, and codependency. She also helps with coping after natural or human-caused disasters and with aging and geriatric issues.
Amy brings long experience to each conversation, aiming to tailor her approach to the person in front of her. People who choose her often want clear communication, realistic steps, and a therapist who listens without judgment. To begin, she asks about what matters most and co-creates goals that fit each person’s life.
What Amy works with
The areas below are the ones Amy selected when setting up a profile. The first one is listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 31 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Using evidence-based techniques in online care
Amy’s practice emphasizes evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach she uses helps people identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, then practice small changes to reduce guilt, shame, and self-criticism. This method is useful for improving self-esteem and daily coping skills.Another approach centers on attachment and relational patterns. It helps people notice how early relationships shape current reactions, and then try new ways of relating that feel safer and more effective. That work can be helpful for communication problems and for repairing trust after hurt.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Amy works collaboratively to choose methods that match a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. She reviews options, explains what to expect, and adjusts her approach as progress is made.
If you are considering online sessions, confirm the specific formats offered before booking since the biography does not list them. Online care can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, shorten check-ins when time is limited, and avoid travel time. Talk with Amy about how to structure sessions so they fit your schedule and goals.
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A practical next step
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