Amy Friend, LCSW
Christian Therapist in Fort Worth
Amy Friend, LCSW
Counseling Specialties
Schedule Availability
Friday 10:00am-6:00pm
Saturday 1:00pm-6:00pm
If you are interested in scheduling a counseling appointment with Amy, then click the schedule button at the top of this page. We hope to see you in the office.
Counseling Background
Amy Friend, LCSW, ABC Certified Biblical Counselor, is a Christian therapist in Fort Worth. She graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from the University of Texas at Arlington and a Master's in Social Work from the same university. Amy has nearly 30 years of mental health experience working in multiple settings, including orphanages, schools (as a behavior specialist), juvenile justice, in-home therapy, crisis stabilization, medical hospitals, intensive outpatient treatment centers, churches, and private practice. At Cowtown, she effectively applies her clinical training from a biblical perspective to provide a holistic therapy experience that offers much more than coping skills.
Why Amy Loves Christian Counseling
Amy loves engaging clients in a meaningful way towards applying the sufficiency of God’s Word to their lives. Clients find meaning, purpose, peace, and lasting well-being when they learn to apply the gospel message personally. They joyfully find that the truth really does set them free! Amy is compassionate, encouraging, and has a unique ability to simplify the complex. She genuinely loves and respects people and can meet everyone where they are in life. Amy considers it an honor and great privilege to counsel others. Honesty, humility, and loyalty are necessary qualities she brings into the therapeutic relationship.
Integrating the Christian Faith into Therapy
Amy will complete a sufficient assessment of the client’s condition as she engages in reflective listening, as the client shares their personal story as it relates to their social, physical, emotional, and spiritual experiences. She then shares her insights and provides relevant clinical education that address causes, symptoms, and recommended treatment protocols for the counseling needs addressed. A personal treatment plan is then created with the client that addresses their body’s needs, relationships, thought life, and emotional responses. She then engages in conversation that draws out core beliefs and meanings the client has about their condition and life experiences that need to be understood and confirmed. Amy then applies the gospel message to these core beliefs and meanings to guide the client through the process of renewing their minds towards a godly perspective that produces an abundant life experience that is content in all circumstances. Personal prayer, Scripture application, helpful handouts, growth assignments, and clinical skills are all included as part of treatment. Amy integrates the Christian faith for common mental health diagnoses, biblical trauma therapy, abuse issues, parenting support, addictions, family and marriage support, neurodivergent populations and their families, adoption issues, grief, hurts and habits, identity, purpose-seeker, as well as life coaching.
Counseling Education and Training
Her experience as a biblical counselor in church ministries, adult bible study teacher, leadership in Celebrate Recover, and her growing personal relationship with Jesus Christ have given her a solid theological understanding of the Scriptures and the gospel applied. Her Post Master’s coursework and both personal and clinical experience in the secular world have provided an in- depth understanding about human nature developmentally and socially and the basic needs all people require to be well and thrive in life. The clinical approaches she uses in practice are predominantly Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Solution Focused Brief (SFBT), Psychodynamic, Family Systems, Relational, Interpersonal, Strength-Based, and Acceptance and Commitment (ACT). Although not EMDR certified, trauma is an area she is comfortable addressing using the above mentioned clinical approaches, as well as her Biblical Counseling Certification in the area of trauma.
Family and Passions
Outside of counseling, Amy is passionate about her family, church, and community. She has been married to her husband Danny for thirty years and together they have four children, Two of their children are adopted and have special needs. She is an active leader and sponsor in her church’s
Celebrate Recovery ministry, a gifted speaker and teacher in a variety of settings and topics, and a mentor to young women in her church, family, and community. She loves the outdoors, is an avid hiker, and spends a good part of the summer in the mountains with her family. Amy is passionate about people, and would love to schedule with you!