Amy earned her masters degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Edgewood College. She has been working in the counseling field since 1993 and specializes in teens and young adults. Amy is also a state certified alcohol and drug counselor. She has experience working in a variety of settings, including outpatient and residential treatment. In the past 10 years she worked at Dane County Mental Health in the Mentoring/Youth Crisis Unit and in the Child and Family Unit, all on an outpatient basis. Amy has also worked in an adolescent residential treatment center, an adolescent group home, and in private practice outpatient therapy. She uses a “strengths based” model of therapy with her clients. Amy sees clients with a variety of issues, including depression, anxiety, abuse, addiction, eating disorders, relationship and family issues. She conducts teens/young adults groups for alcohol and drug isses as well as girl and young woman’s groups.