With decades of experience and advanced training in Relational–Cultural Therapy, Amy supports clinicians in deepening their relational work beyond manualized approaches.

In growth-fostering relationships, therapist and client both change, gaining vitality, understanding, and sense of worth. Therapy becomes something they co-create, offering sustainability rooted in connection rather than unidirectional giving (which gets exhausting!).

Amy’s Relational–Cultural supervision centers mutual learning, supported vulnerability, and relational awareness. She co-facilitates the Psychotherapy Affinity Group with the International Center for Growth in Connection and offers consultation through BCC’s clinician membership community.

Her workshops explore ethics of care, connection through play, RCT and gender diversity, and applying Relational–Cultural Theory in social justice work.

She has presented alongside Dr. Maureen Walker, Dr. Amy Banks, Dr. Dolores Finger Wright, and Dr. Meenaxi Palaniappan, including at Bloomington’s Relational Summit 2024 Playful Connections. Her presentations also include the Aurora University Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Speaker Series, the Renfrew Conference, and the International Center for Growth in Connection Colloquia.

Amy earned her Master of Social Work (MSW) from Tulane University in 1995. Her career has centered relational approaches to healing beyond individual symptom reduction, creating spaces for supported vulnerability and growth-fostering relationships that challenge isolation, shame, and disconnection.

Amy provides RCT-informed supervision, consultation, and training and serves as clinical supervisor and backup for BCC’s couples and relationship work. She offers team-based support for families and other relational systems when that format fits. Her favorite thing about facilitating an RCT training is how much she learns.

Her work often attracts:

• Therapists seeking their own therapy or consultation
• Individuals looking for relational, non-manualized therapy
• Families and couples wanting support that includes both individual and systemic perspectives

Committed to ongoing learning, anti-oppressive practice, and social change, Amy views RCT as a lifelong practice; a way of being. Through therapy, supervision, advocacy, and connection, she supports people in discovering new possibilities. She remains convinced that connection, creativity, play, and love are our only hope for growth and survival, together.