Amy Oxendine, LCSW

Amy Oxendine is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in North Carolina with seven years of clinical experience. She has supported a wide range of people, including adults and students at the elementary, middle, and high school levels, across community and institutional settings. Her professional background includes roles in private mental health agencies, child protective services, hospital care, group homes, and public schools, and she currently works with Veterans who face depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, medical and psychosocial concerns, and military sexual trauma.

Amy focuses on concerns such as depression, anxiety, attention-deficit concerns including ADHD, medical and terminal illness adjustments, parenting challenges, anger management, relationship and family issues, career and financial stressors, and matters related to abuse, neglect, dependency, and foster care. She approaches each client as an individual, drawing on multiple therapeutic methods because what helps one person may not fit another. Her clinical toolbox includes cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, solution-focused strategies, and client-centered principles that emphasize the client’s own goals and strengths.

Known for a compassionate, energetic, and motivated manner, Amy aims to empower people to set and reach meaningful goals and to make measurable progress in the areas that matter most to them. She welcomes the opportunity to build a collaborative therapeutic relationship and to support clients as they navigate change and growth.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Amy draws on several well-established approaches to guide online therapy. Client-centered therapy emphasizes the client’s own goals and strengths and creates a collaborative space where the therapist follows the client’s lead to build insight and confidence; it is helpful for relationship issues, self-esteem work, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and it is commonly used for anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with change. Motivational Interviewing is a conversational, goal-oriented method that helps people explore and strengthen their motivation for change, which can be especially useful for addictions, engagement in treatment, and ambivalence about new habits.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the process, and Amy works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts strategies over time based on progress and feedback to help clients move toward the outcomes they want.

Online therapy with Amy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, giving flexibility to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied lifestyles. These options make it easier to attend sessions from home, while traveling, or between other responsibilities, and they support consistent access to licensed professionals and therapists when change is needed.