Amber Cullen, RMHCI

Background

I am a Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern (RMHCI) in Florida, practicing under the supervision of a licensed clinician while I complete the hours required for full licensure. I completed my graduate training in counseling at Northwestern University and my undergraduate degree at the University of Florida, and I am trained in Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT).

I help adults understand and change the patterns that keep them stuck, and I work with self-worth, self-criticism, anxiety and overthinking, emotional reactivity, boundaries, recurring relationship patterns, and the effects of childhood emotional wounds. I am particularly interested in attachment and in the ways we relate to ourselves, to other people, and to the world, and I believe that a combination of felt safety and insight can help a person create change that lasts.

In therapy I focus first on the relationship and on your sense of safety, since I think the techniques matter less than whether you feel understood. Over time we pay attention to what you feel in your body and in your relationships now, to how your earlier relationships shaped your current patterns, and to what happens between us in session, which often reflects something true about how you relate to people outside of it.