Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
How Amber works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Years in practice
- 11
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Amber
Amber Benamou is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Florida with 11 years of experience. She earned a Master of Social Work and has worked across community mental health, addiction services, and work with children and families. Amber brings a warm, down-to-earth style to sessions and often uses gentle humor when appropriate.
She focuses on building a trusting, collaborative relationship right from the first meeting. Amber helps people who are managing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and anger.
Background and approach
She also supports parents navigating family and parenting challenges, including issues related to blended families and fatherhood. Practical concerns like career transitions, body image, and communication problems are part of her caseload as well. Her approach centers on finding strengths clients already have and turning those into useful strategies.
She combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness skills to address thoughts, behaviors, and present-moment coping. Solution-focused tools and motivational interviewing are used when people want faster, goal-oriented change. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person.
Amber aims to help clients build insight and everyday tools to handle life’s ups and downs. She expresses care through straightforward feedback and clear steps people can try between sessions. People who prefer practical, skills-focused work alongside empathic support often find her style helpful.
She works in English and offers several remote session formats to fit different schedules and needs.
What Amber works with
Everything Amber lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Amber's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Abandonment
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Amber lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How Amber Uses Practical Approaches Online
Amber often blends client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy when meeting with people online. Client-centered therapy means she listens closely and follows the person’s lead to build trust and goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety or anger.She also uses mindfulness techniques to teach simple attention and breathing skills that calm the body and help manage intense emotions. These practices can be useful for stress, grief, and trauma-related reactions because they target reactions in the moment and give concrete tools to try.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Amber will collaborate with each client to see what fits their goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs, and then adjust strategies as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets you work face to face when you want more traditional conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth or a quieter environment is needed, and chat or text work well for short check-ins or when you prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and keep momentum between sessions.
Questions people ask about Amber
What kinds of concerns does Amber address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and anger, plus family and parenting challenges and related issues like body image and communication problems.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She mixes client-centered listening with practical techniques to build skills you can use between sessions.
What is her background and experience?
Amber has 11 years of clinical experience. She has worked in community mental health, addiction services, and with children and families.
What are her credentials and where does she practice?
She holds a Florida licensed clinical social worker credential - FL LCSW - and practices in Florida.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats does she offer?
Sessions are available by video call, phone session, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How does pricing and payment work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.