Amy Key Turman
Amy is a dynamic and experienced practitioner with over 30 years experience. She works with diverse populations age 18 and beyond, and has specialized training in addressing grief and loss, trauma and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), dissociation, personality difficulties, chronic illness and parenting struggles. She is well-versed in addressing anxiety, depression, adjustment and life change issues, and is LGBTQ affirming.
First session
At intake, Amy prefers to get to know her clients and their needs and goals using a conversational and collaborative approach.
Strengths
Amy is a warm, empathic and strengths-based therapist who brings decades of work and life experience to her practice. She uses an integrative and eclectic approach to therapy based upon her training, experience and her clients' needs. She draws from psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral and attachment theories and uses an array of techniques to work with her clients using a whole person and collaborative approach.
Ideal clients
I like working with a diverse group of clients, but particularly enjoy patients with high intelligence, patients with trauma history, and patients with personality struggles, and creative/artistic folks. I also work well with other therapists. I have personal experience with and thus work well with patients with chronic illness and phase of life transition. Attachment wounds are an area of specialization, as are dissociative diagnoses.
Treatment methods
Attachment-based
well-versed, trained and experienced in using this throughout my practice to both guide and educate patients , create a therapeutic and healing bond in treatment, and to establish healthy relationship dynamics outside of session.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Provide research backed interventions and understanding to find, address and alter cognitive distortions, unlearn unhealthy patterns of thinking and behaving.
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
trained and experienced in using DBT to address relationship challenges and regulate emotions using a variety of skill-based techniques.
Culturally Sensitive Therapy
As a clinical social worker, Amy considers culture and environment in her work with each patient.
EMDR
Amy is trained to use EMDR as a research-based intervention for addressing PTSD/trauma needs.
Location
Virtual sessions
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Licensed in
- VirginiaLicense 0904004888