Amy Croft - LCPC, CSAT

Amy specializes in treating adult individuals with intimacy disorders particularly in the areas of sex and love addiction, partners/spouses/families, as well as singles struggling to maintain or re-establish personal integrity and self-respect. Amy received her masters in counseling from Trinity International University and has undergone intense training as a Certified Sexual Addiction Therapist (CSAT) through the International Institute for Trauma & Addiction Professionals. She is also on the clinical staff of Bethesda Workshops in Nashville, TN and acts as a primary facilitator for their four-day intensive working primarily with women who struggle with sex and love addiction.

In addition to her CSAT certification Amy has additional training around sexual addiction recovery from the American Association of Christian Counselors and is certified in EMDR therapy. Amy has treatment specialties and competencies in multiple areas, including:

• Recovery from sex and/or love addiction

• Recovery from betrayal/pain experienced through a relationship with a sex/love addict

• Communication/relational issues (couples, singles, parents)

• Healing low self-worth, self-respect, self-confidence

• Healthy grieving (loss of person, pet, job, dream)

• Freedom from co-dependency

• Navigating transition (college years, job change, divorce, aging)

Amy believes everyone needs a team and that therapy is only a part of health and healing. She explores the physical, mental, emotional, relational, and spiritual and is a strong advocate for 12 Step Recovery, which focuses on healthy and unhealthy attachments, understanding and owning emotions, evaluating and revising ineffective communication patterns, and facing childhood trauma with gentleness, courage, and compassion.