Amy Kilgore, LPC

Amy Kilgore is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with 13 years of professional experience. She brings a compassionate outlook informed by her personal journey and a faith perspective that shapes how she offers hope and steadiness. Amy focuses on practical help for relationship concerns, stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and addiction-related challenges.

Her approach keeps the client’s story central. She listens closely and helps people name what feels most urgent. Sessions tend to be straightforward and goal-focused so people can try changes between meetings. Amy uses tools from several therapeutic approaches to match what a person needs in the moment.

She commonly helps people working through trauma and abuse, eating and body image concerns, grief and loss, and relationship or intimacy-related struggles. Amy also supports those dealing with parenting strain, codependency, mood concerns such as bipolar, and the fallout from separation or domestic violence. She pays attention to attachment, abandonment, and adoption or foster-care histories when those are part of a person’s story.

Amy integrates approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment-Based ideas, Client-Centered Therapy, and EMDR into her work. She aims to help clients build clearer values, practical coping skills, and steadier emotional responses. The tone in sessions is warm, direct, and hopeful.

People interested in starting can expect a respectful, collaborative process focused on clear next steps and real-world changes.

How Amy’s Approaches Work Online

Amy commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and EMDR in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice what matters to them and take small, values-based steps even when feelings are hard; it is useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an approach used for processing traumatic memories and reducing their hold on daily life.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Amy will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and preferences, and then try methods that fit. That way the plan can shift if something isn’t helping or if priorities change.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week and keep continuity during transitions. Before booking, confirm which session formats are offered for this therapist. Many people find remote sessions helpful for shorter check-ins, consistent weekly work, or when travel or work schedules make in-person visits difficult. Amy uses her clinical approaches to offer practical exercises and step-by-step plans that translate well to remote appointments.