Amy Torn, LMFT

Amy Torn is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 25 years of experience supporting children, teens, and adults through life transitions, relationship struggles, and mental health challenges. She trained extensively in cognitive behavioral therapy, bringing a practical, skills-focused approach to reduce distress and change unhelpful patterns, while also integrating mindfulness and self-compassion practices to promote lasting well-being.

Her work weaves research-based methods with holistic perspectives, drawing as well from Internal Family Systems and Motivational Interviewing to help clients explore internal parts and strengthen motivation for change. Amy invites people to cultivate greater self-acceptance, loosen the grip of limiting beliefs, and discover meaning or opportunity amid difficult experiences. She frames therapy as a collaborative process that balances careful listening with thoughtful questions that promote self-exploration.

Specialties include anxiety, self-acceptance, stress, coping with chronic illness, and supporting teens and adults facing life changes. Amy also attends to relationship and family dynamics, grief, trauma and abuse, caregiving stress, and compassion fatigue. Outside of clinical practice she offers complementary services as an astrologer and Reiki practitioner and provides dream interpretation using a research-based model developed at the University of Maryland. In her free time she cares for animal companions, studies Spanish, meditates, hikes, and bakes vegan cookies. She looks forward to connecting with prospective clients who are ready to explore change and growth.