Amber Preston
Compassionate trauma-informed counselor
LPC Pennsylvania
- Experience
- 8 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, LGBT, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English
About Amber
Amber Preston is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Pennsylvania who supports people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, and LGBT-related concerns.
Background and approach
With eight years of clinical experience, she works with a broad range of mood and trauma-related issues including post-traumatic stress, dissociation, self-harm, and disruptive mood dysregulation. Amber also addresses attachment and family of origin difficulties, communication problems, body image and identity concerns, caregiver stress, and the complexities of polyamory and gender dysphoria.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy along with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, mindfulness-based techniques, client-centered methods, and trauma-focused approaches to tailor care to each person’s needs. Amber emphasizes collaboration: she helps clients explore values, challenge unhelpful patterns, and build concrete skills to navigate everyday stressors and long-standing difficulties.
Her practice prioritizes a gender-affirming stance and aims to help people revise unhelpful narratives while strengthening coping and resilience. Amber earned her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and maintains her LPC licensure in Pennsylvania (PA LPC PC010537).
She offers flexible session formats to fit different schedules and preferences, and welcomes people ready to take the first step toward change.
How therapeutic approaches guide online care
Amber integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and trauma-focused methods alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to support clients in online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors into more effective patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression, and day-to-day stress. Trauma-focused therapy attends directly to the impact of traumatic experiences, helping people process memories and reduce trauma-related symptoms through targeted interventions. ACT emphasizes values-based action and acceptance of difficult internal experiences, supporting people who want to live more meaningfully despite painful thoughts or feelings.Choosing the right approach happens collaboratively. The therapist will work with each person to explore goals, preferences, and responses to different techniques, adapting from CBT, ACT, mindfulness, client-centered, or trauma-focused strategies as needed so care fits the individual rather than forcing a single method.
Online sessions are offered via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility and accessibility for people with busy schedules or geographic constraints. These options allow for regular contact, skill practice between sessions, and the ability to continue therapeutic work from home or other convenient locations, making it easier to maintain continuity of care.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
8+ years
Licensed
Pennsylvania
Languages
English