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I often work with folks who are:

  • Making sense of childhood experiences and family dynamics, seeking to explore how it contributes to their patterns and experience of self in the present.

  • In a process of discovery about themselves, their needs, desires, values, and beliefs.

  • Seeking to make adjustments in their lives to create greater alignment between their inner and outer experience.

  • In a process of crafting their view of the world and themselves through living, reflecting, experimenting, deconstructing and creating.

  • Looking to get to know their inner experience while developing compassion for parts of themselves and increasing capacity for their depth of feeling.

  • Seeking to utilize the creative process and therapeutic relationship to connect to intuition, emotions, strengths, desires, and process.

  • Wanting to explore vulnerability and trust through the therapeutic relationship, processing feelings that come up to help understand attachment patterns and needs.

  • Negotiating needs in relationships and seeking to improve their communication while also deepening their understanding of their attachment patterns.

  • Navigating the impacts of religious trauma, working to process past experiences, explore deconstruction, and engage in their own intuitive healing process.

Amy Maxwell, MPS, LPC, LCAT, LCPC, ATR-BC

I work with individuals who are experiencing impacts on their life and wellbeing from complex trauma and C-PTSD, especially those who struggle to make sense of childhood experiences, dysfunctional family-of-origin dynamics, and attachment trauma. I often work with individuals who feel emotionally overwhelmed, have difficulty setting boundaries, feel disconnected from themselves, and struggle with rescuing/fixing others at their expense. Clients often come to my practice amidst navigating anxiety, codependency, and perfectionism, including patterns of self-abandonment, avoidance, low self-esteem, denial, control, and compliance in relationships. I am LGBTQ+ affirming and actively work towards fostering an anti-oppressive lens. I am working to conceptualize new ways of offering community care in my practice and embodying collective liberation in my existence as a human.

I take a warm, compassionate approach to cultivate a safe space to explore relational wounds and find healing through fostering empowerment, self-understanding, and self-nurturance. I experience a genuine interest, care, and desire to understand my clients within the therapeutic space. I have a creative, curious, and explorative nature that is present in reflecting on one’s internal world, connection to self, community, ways of being, emotions, and change. I enjoy being receptive to what client’s bring into therapy and a collaborative partner in understanding the “why” of current ways of being while also identifying intuitive wants and needs that move us in a direction aligned with who you are and are becoming. I believe we are in a constant state of growth, evolution, and change as we navigate life, and feel that therapy can be an open space to explore this ongoing discovery with depth. I am grounded in a psychodynamic and relational-integrative approach, utilizing approaches including creative arts therapy, Internal Family Systems, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, EMDR, and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy.

Drawing on existential, psychodynamic, depth-oriented, and creative arts therapies, our work together goes beneath the surface to explore the patterns, meanings, and experiences that shape how you move through the world.

Rather than focusing solely on what’s visible on the surface, depth work trusts that the psyche has its own wisdom, and that lasting change often comes from befriending the parts of ourselves we’ve kept in shadow.

Attachment-based and psychodynamic therapy recognizes that our earliest relationships — the ways we learned to seek comfort, connection, and safety — leave a lasting imprint on how we relate to ourselves and others. This work is gentle and compassionate.

Creative arts therapy offers a non-verbal pathway that deepens our opportunity for self-expression, and works on a neurobiological level to heal the impacts of traumatic wounding

For couples, I work within the Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) framework — itself rooted in attachment theory — enriched by depth perspectives that help partners understand the older stories and unconscious dynamics each brings to the relationship.

Across all of my work, the goals are the same:

  • Authentic expression — finding your voice and learning to trust it

  • Emotional awareness & connection — developing a more compassionate relationship with your inner world

  • Meaningful communication — learning to be known by others, and embrace vulnerable connection

I am licensed to practice psychotherapy in NY, CO, TX, ME and FL (virtual). I am a Board-Certified Art Therapist and trained EMDR therapist. I hold a Master of Professional Studies in Art Therapy and Creativity Development from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. I have also completed a Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies from Naropa University, and MDMA-Assisted Therapy Education through MAPS (now Lykos Therapeutics).