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Amy Leach
MSW, LCSW
Trauma therapy, EMDR and couples counseling, so you can find steady ground.
🟢 Accepting clients
Adolescents/Teens | Adults
Couples Therapy | Individual Therapy
Amy Leach, MSW, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker providing therapy for individuals ages 10 and up, couples and parents in Durham, NC and across North Carolina through secure telehealth. She offers EMDR, Brainspotting and somatic approaches, and welcomes LGBTQIA+, poly, kink-affirming and cross-neurotype clients and couples.
Meet with Amy
Free 15-minute phone consultation · Eastern Time
In-person in Durham NC – Southpark
Statewide telehealth in North Carolina
$200 per session
Limited sliding scale fees available
Currently out of network with insurances other than those listed
Trauma Therapy, EMDR, and Couples Counseling in Durham, NC
You may be reflective and have worked hard to build strategies for managing your emotions, yet still find yourself reaching for a deeper sense of fulfillment and acceptance of who you are. Maybe your history gets in the way of true connection in your relationships. Maybe you are working to rewrite the story you tell about yourself, or you are a parent trying to heal wounds from your own childhood while parenting differently than you were raised.
Amy Leach is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker providing therapy for individuals ages 10 and up, couples and parents in Durham, NC and across North Carolina through secure telehealth.
Who Amy works with
- Individuals and teens ages 10+ moving through trauma, shame, anxiety and identity questions
- Couples and poly relationships seeking deeper intimacy and support navigating stressors, diagnoses and life together
- Cross neurotype couples, where partners experience and process the world differently
- Parents working to break generational patterns and heal childhood wounds
- LGBTQIA+ individuals and couples; Amy is also poly and kink affirming
- Survivors of sexual abuse and sexual assault
I help people with
Approaches I use
My Approach to Therapy
Amy is collaborative and interactive. She wants to know what you’ve already done to heal, your worldview, your identities and what they mean to you, and then you work through things together. She welcomes feedback and questions, and places enormous value on building and keeping your trust.
She helps clients get curious about their thoughts and reactions, notice when unhelpful judgments show up, and unpack the societal messages that have contributed to feeling othered. Together you look at what matters most to you and what stands between you and more of it. Her goal is for you to grow the part of yourself that is consistently compassionate toward you, and to find steady ground under your feet.
Amy draws from evidence-based, trauma-informed approaches, including:
- EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
- Brainspotting
- Somatic therapy and somatically informed parts work
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples
- LGBTQIA+ celebratory, neurodivergent-affirming, and poly and nontraditional relationship celebratory care
A Little About Amy
Amy is a queer, white, cisgender, middle-aged atheist. Outside the office you’ll find her near or in the water, on her back porch listening to the sounds of nature or her kids hollering, or stealing quick moments to catch up with her partner.
Before private practice, she worked with and taught undergraduate and graduate students in a university counseling center, where she also led a group for survivors of sexual abuse and sexual assault for many years.
My Expertise
Education
- Master of Social Work (MSW), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Professional Credentials & Training
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), North Carolina License #C006366: North Carolina Social Work Certification and Licensure Board
- Experience in a university counseling center, including leading a group for survivors of sexual abuse and sexual assault