Amy Pruitt, LMFT
Compassionate therapist for trauma and mood concerns
About Amy
Amy Pruitt is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with more than 22 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, and struggles with self-esteem and addictions.
Background and approach
Her approach is conversational and down-to-earth so clients often feel heard quickly. She has worked in community mental health settings, including in-home family services, nonprofit mental health clinics, and outpatient programs that supported residential substance abuse treatment.
That background shaped a practical style focused on real-life change. Amy draws from a variety of methods to meet the needs of each person.
Amy uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and build new coping skills. She uses Narrative Therapy to help people reframe life stories and notice strengths.
Solution-Focused techniques guide short-term goal work and quick wins. Therapy sessions emphasize skill teaching, education about symptoms, and hands-on exercises to practice between meetings.
Amy describes her work as systemic and strength-focused, looking at patterns that come from family history and current relationships. Clients leave with clearer goals and tools they can use day to day.
She works with adults and draws on decades of community-based practice to help people navigate grief, transitions, mood and trauma-related issues. Amy holds a Washington LMFT credential and conducts sessions in English.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Amy commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Narrative Therapy in online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors through practical exercises, which can help with anxiety, panic, mood disorders, and sleep problems. Narrative Therapy helps people tell and reframe their life stories so strengths and choices become clearer, useful for grief, trauma processing, and family of origin concerns.Choosing the best approach is a team process. She will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and preferences and then suggest methods to try. Sessions can shift over time as needs change, blending approaches as useful to reach concrete goals.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for deeper conversation and interactive exercises. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice, and follow-up between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English