- Guilt and shame
- Attachment work
- Mindfulness practice
About Amy
Amy Shumack is an AASW social worker with eight years of clinical experience in Australia. She works with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues and self-esteem concerns. Amy also lists focus areas that include abandonment, attachment issues, body image, communication problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, loneliness, life purpose, post-traumatic stress, self-love, sexuality and women’s issues.
Amy uses clear, practical conversation in sessions. She draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centred Therapy, Mindfulness and Narrative Therapy to help people name what’s happening and try small changes. Sessions involve talking, noticing patterns, and practising simple skills between meetings.
She describes work that attends to how the body and relationships carry feeling and memory. That may include grounding and breath awareness alongside talking about past hurt and current choices. The aim is to help people feel more able to manage strong emotions and make decisions they find meaningful.
Amy has experience helping people repair communication, manage anxiety, and address trauma-related reactions. She also supports people dealing with shame, guilt, and struggles around intimacy and body image. Her background includes social work practice with trauma-informed methods and attention to attachment patterns.
For someone carrying guilt or shame, sessions focus on understanding how those feelings arose and what keeps them active now. Amy encourages specific, manageable steps - experiments to try between sessions and ways to talk about difficult memories without becoming overwhelmed.
How Amy uses therapy methods in online sessions
Amy draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in straightforward ways. ACT helps people notice painful thoughts and decide what matters to them, then practice small actions that match those values. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds affect current relationships and provides ways to try different ways of connecting.She also uses Client-Centred Therapy ideas, which means listening closely to what each person brings and adjusting the pace. Together the client and therapist work out which approaches fit best for the problem at hand and the person’s goals. That collaborative approach helps decide whether to focus more on emotion regulation, relationship patterns, or practical experiments between sessions.
The practical benefits of online work can include fitting sessions into a busy week and avoiding travel time. Because the biography does not specify which session formats are offered, confirm current options before booking. When arranged, online sessions can make it easier to maintain regular appointments, try brief check-ins, and practise skills in everyday settings without needing to rearrange the whole day.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
8+ years
Listed in
Australia
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she work with related to guilt or shame?
She lists guilt and shame among focus areas and works with related issues such as intimacy problems, body image, forgiveness and post-traumatic stress.
How would she approach feelings of guilt?
She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, narrative techniques and mindfulness to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try small behaviour changes.
What experience does she bring to this work?
Amy has eight years of clinical experience as an AASW social worker and has worked with trauma, anxiety, relationship and self-esteem concerns.
Where is she based and what credential does she hold?
She is located in Australia and is an AASW social worker.
Can I work with her if I live overseas?
International clients are not currently accepted; sessions are offered in English within Australia.
Which session formats does she offer?
The original biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking.
How does payment work and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working 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.