Amy Kilgore

Amy Kilgore is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPC) practicing in Virginia with 13 years of professional experience. She brings personal life experience alongside her clinical work and grounds her approach in a faith perspective informed by the gospel of Jesus Christ. Amy focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, addiction, grief, and relationship and intimacy-related concerns, including anger and parenting challenges.

She believes many current struggles link back to unresolved grief and fear. In sessions she treats those problems through thoughtful conversation and practical strategies. Amy emphasizes that the person in front of her knows their story best and aims to offer steady support without taking over that expertise.

Her clinical work includes approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. She uses these methods to help people clarify values, build coping skills, process traumatic memories, and improve communication in close relationships.

Clients can expect a collaborative style that blends faith-informed perspective with evidence-based techniques when it fits the client’s goals. She often focuses on concrete steps people can try between sessions, and she checks in about what is and isn’t helping.

If someone is considering starting therapy, Amy invites them to reach out and see if they feel like a good match. The first step is to complete the platform’s matching questionnaire and then schedule a session according to availability.

How these approaches can help online

Amy commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing in her work. ACT helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, clarify personal values, and take small steps toward a life that matters to them. EMDR focuses on processing troubling memories that keep showing up, which can reduce the intensity of trauma-related reactions.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, review what has helped or not helped before, and suggest methods that fit the person’s needs and preferences. Clients and the therapist adjust the plan over time rather than committing to a single method from the start.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session options before booking since formats were not specified in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - for example it can reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins during a lunch break, or make it simpler to attend when relocating within the same state. Licensed professionals generally use a mix of talk-based interventions, skills practice, and guided processing that translate to remote sessions, and the therapist will explain which approaches she plans to use and why once you connect.