It’s your time to thrive.

 

Abbie Ames | Columbus OH Therapist

Therapy for Women and Moms in Columbus and across Ohio

Right now, you’re feeling filled with worry, overwhelmed, depleted, and stuck.

You’re carrying a heavy load. With all of the things you do, day in and day out, you’ve got no fuel left in the tank. You wonder how everyone else around you looks like they have it all together.

Life can’t seem to slow down with its ever-growing “to do list”. You’re doing your absolute best to meet everyone else’s needs and expectations, only it leaves you feeling like your best isn’t good enough. You’re stretched too thin. But what about you? You need your cup filled too.

I get it.

Hi, I’m Abbie.

I’m a believer that you are the expert on your life. I join you on your healing journey to help you identify your blind spots, enhance your perspective on situations, identify stuck points or beliefs that are holding you back, and help you find self-awareness and clarity so that you can move forward with peace. Your healing is my priority. I may wear the occasional cardigan and ask about your feelings, but I’m not your typical “uh-huh” therapist.

I’m also direct, a straight-shooter, and will engage and be transparent with you. It’s important to me that we have an open and honest dialogue. When we join forces in therapy to get you unstuck, you will feel empowered, and begin to make connections in your life that can bring clarity and relief.

I understand the unique challenges that come with being a woman and a mother

As a mother to little ones, I know both the joys and mixed messages that comes with the role—”nurture your children and practice self-care!” I know the pain of infertility, fertility treatments, and birth trauma, and what these experiences do to your mind, body, and soul. What I offer you is my human-ness, my real-ness, and a compassionate safe space that you feel you belong in.

My journey in motherhood and extensive training in EMDR, trauma-focused care, and perinatal mood and anxiety disorders has given me the unique opportunity to help hard-working, compassionate women like you find transformation. Every woman’s story is unique and deserves to be told. Your story deserves space, and you deserve to heal.

 You don’t have to keep struggling alone and pretending like you have it all together. You can go from surviving to thriving. Reach out for the support and CHANGE you have been longing for.

Clients say therapy is different with me because I am…

  • Genuine, authentic, competent and knowledgeable

  • Truly passionate about helping them and they can tell I really care

  • Interactive and engaged vs. just sitting back and listening

  • Offer more than just “coping skills”

  • Clients make connections and think in ways they never have before

  • They gain clarity and improve self-awareness

  • Identify patterns that are no longer serving them

  • Heal from previous pain and wounds as well as current ones they didn’t even realize were buried

  • They don’t have to relive the painful past in order to heal and feel better

Therapy for Pregnancy, Postpartum, and Beyond

EMDR Therapy for Trauma
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Therapy for Self-Esteem and Self-Love

Education and Training

 

  • Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor in Ohio

  • MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Walden University in 2015

  • BA in Psychology with a minor in family studies from Miami University 

  • EMDR Certified Therapist by the EMDR International Association

  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) basic training (I and II)

  • Specialized EMDR training in grief and loss

  • Specialized EMDR training for attachment trauma/early or preverbal trauma

  • ACT Training

  • IFS informed

  • Specialized training in Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders from PSI

  • Teletherapy for Perinatal Mental Health 

  • In Process: Perinatal Mental Health Certification (PMH-C)

You don’t have to do this alone. Let’s work through this together.