About Kenya
Kenya Amos is a Licensed Professional Counselor who practices in Oregon and brings nine years of clinical experience. She offers straightforward, supportive care for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. Kenya focuses on helping people set personal goals and learn skills they can use between sessions.
She uses approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and solution-focused methods while also drawing on client-centered and psychodynamic ideas when helpful.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and geared toward real-life changes like managing anger, improving self-esteem, coping with life transitions, and addressing caregiving strain. Kenya works with concerns around relationships, parenting challenges, family of origin issues, adoption and foster care, codependency, and communication problems. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, infidelity, isolation, and career-related stress.
Her work includes attention to compassion fatigue and ADHD related struggles. In sessions she listens closely and helps clients recognize patterns that get in the way of their goals. She partners with people to build coping tools, change unhelpful thoughts, and practice new behaviors.
The therapist’s style is practical and collaborative, focusing on what will help each person move forward. Kenya practices as an LPC and LMHC in Oregon and offers therapy in English. People connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on their needs.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's concerns. It helps people feel heard and guides them to find their own solutions to relationship, parenting, or self-esteem struggles.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It teaches practical tools to reduce anxiety and depression by changing unhelpful thinking and building new behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication. It is useful for anger, relationship conflict, and reactions to trauma.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as progress is made. This collaborative planning ensures therapy stays focused on what the person wants to change.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and practicing skills, phone works when bandwidth is limited or for a simpler check-in, live chat can be quick for clarifying thoughts, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and varied routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Oregon, Washington
- Languages
- English