Meet Amy

Amy Ambridge

AMFT · Marriage & Family Therapist

Teens, adults, couples and families. A place to look at the hard things — difficult experiences, relationships, emotions, the patterns you keep returning to — without being rushed through them.

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Therapy that fits the person

Amy works with teens, adults, couples and families, individually and in groups. Her focus is trauma-informed care, and what that means in practice is a room where it is safe to go slowly: somewhere collaborative, unhurried, and steady enough that you can look at things you have been carrying on your own.

She takes an integrative approach, because effective treatment is not one size fits all. What she draws on depends on you — your needs, your goals, your strengths, your relationships, and where you are in the work. The method follows the person.

Alongside the therapy itself, she pays attention to the lifestyle underneath it: the sleep, the movement, the daily habits that support a brain and a body well enough to do this kind of work.

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Therapy should be responsive to the person — not the other way around.

Amy's clinical philosophy

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Specialized training

Certified, and careful about when to use it

Three certifications, each a full course of study, and a trauma-informed thread running through all of it. None of them is a default — Amy reaches for a method when it is right for the person in front of her.

Gottman Method Couples Therapy

A research-informed approach built on decades of study into what actually keeps couples together. The work focuses on friendship and emotional connection, communication and conflict, and understanding each other better than you did before. It can help if you want to break a recurring argument, rebuild closeness, or simply understand why the same thing keeps happening.

EMDR

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a structured approach to processing distressing or traumatic experience. It can help you find a new relationship to a difficult memory — to the emotions, the beliefs, and the way your body still responds. Amy uses it when it fits, as part of a wider plan, never as a one-size treatment.

Eagala Model equine-assisted psychotherapy

Certified in the Eagala Model, which brings horses into the therapeutic process. Sessions happen from the ground — there is no riding. You interact with and observe the horses while exploring what comes up: thoughts, feelings, relationships, patterns. For some people, something becomes clear in that setting that never quite surfaced in a room.

Trauma-informed care

An awareness, throughout the work, of how trauma can shape emotions, relationships, behaviour, the body, and a person's sense of safety and control.

An integrative approach

More than one way in, chosen to fit the person.

What a session looks like depends on you — your goals, your personality, your relationships, and the stage of the work. These are the approaches Amy draws from.

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Looking at how thoughts, feelings and behaviour feed each other, and building patterns of thinking and responding that serve you better.
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Practical skills for riding out strong emotion: regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and getting what you need from the people around you.
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Narrative Therapy

Examining the stories you have come to tell about yourself, and making room for other, truer ones.
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Internal Family Systems

Meeting the different parts of yourself with curiosity instead of judgement, and getting better acquainted with what each of them is protecting.
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Somatic approaches

Noticing what your body is doing while your mind is busy — the nervous system responses that run underneath the words.
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EMDR

Used where it fits, to support the processing of distressing or traumatic experience.
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Grounding and regulation

Concrete strategies for coming back to the present moment and finding steadiness when things feel unmanageable.
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Trauma-informed care

Held across everything above: pacing, choice, and safety, so the work never outruns what you can hold.

Teens, families and groups

Amy particularly enjoys working with teens and with families, and she works from a simple understanding: when a young person is struggling, the whole system around them matters. Work with adolescents might take in emotional regulation, communication, relationships, identity, self-worth, coping, family dynamics, or simply finding a way through something hard.

She also facilitates group therapy, where a good deal of the value comes from the room itself — shared experience, interpersonal learning, communication practice, and the particular relief of discovering you are not the only one.

What you can expect

Collaborative, compassionate, and built around you. Depending on what you need, sessions might involve conversation and insight, practical skill building, experiential exercises, body-based awareness, relationship work, trauma processing, or a group.

What stays the same is the aim. Not to teach you a therapeutic model, but to work out together what is actually happening, name what you want to be different, and build the tools and the experiences that make that change hold.