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

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.

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).

My current interests include: Anti-oppressive healing practices, community care, Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy (DNMS), and unmasking neurodivergence.

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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 life and experience of themself 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.