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Amy Shearer

Amy Shearer, LMHC

Florida

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Florida LMHC - Guilt and shame, anxiety

  • mind-body practices
  • spiritual health focus
  • strengths based work

About Amy

Amy Shearer is a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 26 years of experience. She works with people who are coping with stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and life changes. She also focuses on forgiveness, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, life purpose, self-love, and women's issues. Amy offers sessions in English and Spanish and brings a long history of practice to each meeting.

Her approach looks at the whole person. She talks with clients about how mind and body, habits, and spiritual beliefs interact with daily struggles. Sessions include self-reflection and mind-body practices aimed at practical shifts rather than abstract theory. Amy emphasizes strengths and past resources as part of moving forward.

She describes barriers and setbacks as opportunities for redirection rather than failure. That means looking for small, concrete changes a person can try between sessions. She uses plain language and short-term tools alongside deeper reflection when that feels helpful.

Amy has worked with anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, learning difficulties, and family conflict across her career. Her practice blends attention to spiritual health with practical coping skills. She frames treatment as a cooperative process where the client’s priorities guide the work.

Sessions follow a broad assessment to identify what is contributing to a person’s current state. From there she helps people pick realistic steps they can test in everyday life. For anyone carrying guilt or shame, she offers space to talk through those feelings and to consider how they fit into a larger picture of meaning and change.

Therapeutic techniques and how they work online

Amy describes using a whole-person mix of self-reflection, mind-body practices, and attention to spiritual health. Self-reflection means talking through patterns, beliefs, and past events to clarify what keeps a problem going and what might change. Mind-body practices are simple breathing or grounding exercises and movement ideas that can help with anxiety, stress, and somatic reactions.

She also draws on practical coping skills that help people manage day-to-day distress and test small changes between sessions. Those skills are concrete steps - short routines, thought practices, and behavioral experiments - that can reduce overwhelm and clarify next steps. Together, therapist and client decide which methods fit current needs and goals in a collaborative way.

The therapist will work with each person to figure out the best mix of approaches based on their preferences and goals. Finding the right fit is part of the process; Amy helps clients try techniques and then adjusts based on what helps most. For session logistics, the original biography does not list which formats are offered. Confirm current online session options before booking so you know how meetings will be scheduled. Many people find that fitting sessions into their week makes it easier to practice new skills between appointments.

Areas of expertise

Additional focus areas

Experience

26+ years

Listed in

Florida

Languages

English, Spanish

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does she commonly support?

Amy works with stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and life changes. She also focuses on forgiveness, guilt and shame, isolation, life purpose, self-love, and women's issues.

How does she approach feelings of guilt or shame?

She talks through how those feelings fit into a person's life story and daily patterns. Her approach combines self-reflection with mind-body practices and practical steps to try between sessions.

What is her background and experience?

She has 26 years of experience as a mental health professional and has run a private wellness practice that integrates spiritual health and practical coping skills.

What credential does she hold and where is she based?

She is a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and practices in Florida.

Does she work in other languages or with international clients?

Sessions are offered in English and Spanish. International clients are not currently accepted.

What session formats are available?

The original biography does not list specific session formats. Confirm current session options before booking to know how you can meet with her.

How does pricing work for sessions?

Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I get started with her?

Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.

Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.

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