Amy Kilgore

Amy Kilgore is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Virginia with 13 years of clinical experience. She combines professional practice with a personal commitment to care informed by her faith. Amy focuses on helping people who are coping with trauma, stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, and relationship concerns. She writes in a warm, direct manner and invites people to reach out if they feel she might be a fit.

Amy centers her work on listening first. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and helps them name what matters most. In sessions she uses practical tools from approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address thoughts, behaviors, and values.

For people with trauma or distressing memories she uses methods that work with traumatic material and its emotional impact. Attachment-based ideas inform how she helps people understand relationship patterns and repair connection when that matters. Her experience includes concerns like eating and intimacy-related issues, codependency, abandonment, and dissociation.

Amy also supports people facing life transitions, parenting strain, or compassion fatigue from caregiving roles. She works with mood concerns including bipolar features, anger, and disruptive mood dysregulation related problems. Her style is collaborative and straightforward, aimed at helping clients make changes that fit their daily lives.

If someone is unsure how therapy might help, Amy asks questions to clarify goals and builds a step-by-step plan. She encourages people to start with the matching process and then schedule a first session to see how the working relationship feels.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Amy draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify personal values and take small actions that align with those values. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, which can help with anxiety, avoidance, and life transitions.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and experiment with different behaviors. CBT offers concrete skills for managing panic, worry, low mood, and eating-related concerns through practical exercises and homework.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Amy will ask about your goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then recommend strategies to try. She treats the choice of methods as collaborative and revisits the plan as needs change.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session formats before booking so you know what options are available. Online work can make it easier to fit counseling into a busy week, shorten travel time, and allow for check-ins that are focused and efficient. Discuss scheduling needs and any practical preferences during the intake so sessions match everyday life.