About Amber
Amber Trinkle is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. She works with adults facing issues like parenting strain, sleep problems, addiction, ADHD, grief, and struggles with self-esteem. Her approach is straightforward and focused on practical steps that fit everyday life.
She uses a mix of talking, skill-building, and goal-setting. Sessions often center on identifying patterns that cause distress and trying small changes to see what helps.
Background and approach
Amber emphasizes listening and collaboration so clients set the pace and choose priorities. Her background includes a decade in behavioral health settings across New York. That experience includes supporting people with mood disorders, impulse control struggles, post-traumatic stress, and challenges tied to adoption and attachment.
She has worked in varied environments and brings those lessons into her sessions. Amber commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also draws on client-centered methods to make room for each person’s values and goals.
Mindfulness and dialectical skills are added when people need tools for emotion regulation and stress management. In practice she focuses on clear, manageable steps. Expect practical exercises between sessions, gentle reflection during meetings, and guidance on communication and coping.
Amber aims to help people build routines and skills they can use outside of therapy to feel more steady and in control.
Approaches that translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current emotions and trust. In sessions this can look like talking through relationship patterns and practicing new ways to connect and regulate emotions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot and change thoughts and habits that increase anxiety or low mood, often using short homework exercises between meetings. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus during stressful moments.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and will adjust those methods as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more connection is helpful. Phone sessions or live chat can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Text-based messaging supports brief updates, reminders, or between-session reflections. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule while using the therapeutic tools discussed above.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English