Amber Pearce, ACMHC
Therapist
My name is Amber. I am passionate about mental heath and helping those who want a better life for themselves. I believe in the power of therapy, implementing skills, and getting to know your brain and body.
During this process of self-awareness, we uncover and create understanding in how yours and your family’s past experiences can lead to ineffective stress responses. We begin by looking back into the past and see how it makes sense in the context of your unique life experience. Only then, can one learn the skills that make meaningful changes and truly move forward. I believe to often in therapy we can get stuck over-analyzing the why and over-intellectualizing our human experiences.
Part of the journey with me, is understand how your body/brain work together to shape many of our emotional experiences. I have a passion for neurobiology, polyvagal theory, and mindfulness practices such as yoga that create the ability to teach how our physiology plays a major role in our mental health.
Education
Master of Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Experience
Trained in DBT, CBT, PRT, mindfulness, trauma-informed care, and treating generational/inherited trauma
I am currently in the process of additional training in polyvagal theory (PVT) and Internal Family Systems (IFS).
I specialize in working with individuals experiencing anxiety, perfectionism, chronic pain, emotional dysregulation, over-control tendencies such as, rigidity in relationships, black and white thinking patterns, eating disorders, and viewing life in a constant problem-solving manner. I work with individuals and couples who have experienced relationship trauma and have attachment wounds that create conflict in their personal relationships. I also treat those who have suffered from trauma, both acute trauma and generational/inherited trauma.
My approach is based in mindfulness practices. I teach skills to self and co-regulate your nervous system and begin to observe your thoughts. These skills lead one to be emotionally regulated, effective in their personal relationships, and help create meaning in one’s life. These strategies help people recognize when their brain/nervous system is chronically hypervigilant which can lead to exhaustion, chronic pain in the body, attention deficits, difficulty sleeping, inability to connect with others, and feeling out of touch with your own life.
Outside of doing therapy I love spending time with my family and friends. I am an avid reader and love learning more about the human experience. I enjoy doing hot yoga, running, Pilates, and lifting weights. I love to garden and am a flower fanatic. I also love to travel and see all the beauty the world has to offer.