AMY CROWL-KINNEY, MSW, PLMHP

AMY CROWL-KINNEY

Amy is currently a psychotherapist in practice at Women's Therapy and Learning Center. Amy received her Masters in Social Work with an emphasis in mental health and family and couples therapy.

Amy has a strong committment to serving the emotional, relational, and spiritual needs of clients in individual, couples and group therapy . Her interests include women's issues, depression, sexual abuse/trauma, relationship/marriage counseling, and mental health. In addition, Amy specializes in working with individuals suffering with eatng disorders (bulimia, anorexia nervosa, compulsive overeating), other food compulsions and addictions, and body image issues. Her approach encompasses several theories: psycho-education about eating disorders, cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, with her greatest theoretical emphasis on feminist psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Before joining Women's Therapy and Learning Center, Amy was a psychotherapist at Lutheran Family Services in the Parent's United Program working with adolescents who had been sexually abused or assaulted. She worked at Catholic Charities in their domestic violence program and at the University of Colorado, Denver conducting research in the study of adolescent boys addicted to drugs and alcohol and involved in gangs. She has also conducted, published and presented extensive psychological research in eating disorders.

Amy is currently taking referrals for individual, couples and group therapy, speaking engagements and consultation.