Amy Powers, LPC

Amy Powers is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in South Carolina with 17 years of experience. She works with adults on concerns such as anxiety, depression, relationship strain, stress, parenting pressures, grief, trauma and codependency-related patterns.

She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice thought patterns that keep them stuck. She also draws on client-centered ideas to listen and respond to each person’s experience. Her approach is direct and practical rather than vague; she balances straightforward feedback with respectful listening.

In sessions she helps people build clearer boundaries, manage intense emotions, and change behaviors that harm their well-being. She uses skills from dialectical behavior therapy when emotions feel overwhelming and from mindfulness therapy to help people slow down and notice what matters in the moment. Solution-focused work is used to set short-term, achievable goals.

People who come because they put others first or tolerate another’s drinking or crises will find concrete tools for saying no, for handling jealous or controlling dynamics, and for coping with caregiver stress. She also works with mood disorders, panic, OCD symptoms, and attachment-related concerns.

Practical steps are emphasized over long lectures. The therapist and client set goals together, try small experiments between sessions, and adjust the plan as progress is made. Sessions are aimed at helping people regain a clearer sense of their own needs and choices.

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