I love supporting people in creating their best lives possible.
Through the wonders of technology, I work with people wherever in the world they might be. I keep my practice small and intensive, so that I can offer each individual, couple, and family with whom I work powerful, personalized attention and strategies for growth.
Although I am trained and licensed in psychotherapy, my approach reflects a coaching model. Years of university teaching and supporting students shape my education-oriented, skills-based style. In private work, expect warm, compassionate, intelligent support, clear and direct suggestions, enthusiastic encouragement, and powerful, honest guidance designed to help you achieve the goals you define and the life you design. If your goal is to maintain a relatoinship with a disordered person or family, my goal is to help you do that in ways that are growth-oriented, harmonious, and fluent in the skills that social science confirms as helping relationships function well. If your goal is to decide on whether to exit a toxic relationship, to navigate a break-up, divorce, or restructuring, my goal is to help you do that in ways that ensure your success, safety, and forward momentum.
Here are examples of the kinds of people I help:
I believe that your time is valuable. You seek out coaching because you want hope, relief, and progress in the direction of change sooner rather than later. You're already suffering, feeling stuck in problematic patterns, and facing troubling questions. It is true that the answers are inside you already --- but sometimes you need someone to help you figure out how to listen to them, as well as some additional tools and skills to take action on your answers. I would be delighted to be that someone for you.
My areas of specialization include:
Through the wonders of technology, I work with people wherever in the world they might be. I keep my practice small and intensive, so that I can offer each individual, couple, and family with whom I work powerful, personalized attention and strategies for growth.
Although I am trained and licensed in psychotherapy, my approach reflects a coaching model. Years of university teaching and supporting students shape my education-oriented, skills-based style. In private work, expect warm, compassionate, intelligent support, clear and direct suggestions, enthusiastic encouragement, and powerful, honest guidance designed to help you achieve the goals you define and the life you design. If your goal is to maintain a relatoinship with a disordered person or family, my goal is to help you do that in ways that are growth-oriented, harmonious, and fluent in the skills that social science confirms as helping relationships function well. If your goal is to decide on whether to exit a toxic relationship, to navigate a break-up, divorce, or restructuring, my goal is to help you do that in ways that ensure your success, safety, and forward momentum.
Here are examples of the kinds of people I help:
- Partners and spouses feeling trapped, stuck, and exhausted by their relationships.
- Moms and Dads contemplating divorcing a toxic spouse and stressed about the impact on children --- both of leaving and of staying.
- Adults frustrated with adult siblings who create friction, exploitation, or volatility in the family system/
- Adults dealing with aging parents who exhibit symptoms of narcissism.
- Parents in very difficult co-parenting situations.
- Parents of disordered adult children trying to maintain relationships with their adult children and/or support their grandchildren.
- Adults recovering from Narcissistic Abuse Syndrome and trying to make sense of invalidating, chaotic, sometimes violent childhood experiences.
- Couples in which one or both partners are concerned about verbal or physical abuse, deception, volatility, meanness, or communication difficulty.
I believe that your time is valuable. You seek out coaching because you want hope, relief, and progress in the direction of change sooner rather than later. You're already suffering, feeling stuck in problematic patterns, and facing troubling questions. It is true that the answers are inside you already --- but sometimes you need someone to help you figure out how to listen to them, as well as some additional tools and skills to take action on your answers. I would be delighted to be that someone for you.
My areas of specialization include:
- Helping people leave and recover from crazy-making relationships if the relationship cannot be salvaged.
- Providing support and guidance for partners, spouses, former partners and family members of people who behave in confusing, unstable, exploitative, verbally abusive, self-centered, manipulative, and generally crazy-making ways. Some diagnoses associated with those behaviors include Borderline Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and Anti-social Personality Disorder.
- Providing relief to people suffering with anxiety, panic, and depression as a result of toxic or crazy-making relationships.
- Partners and spouses feeling trapped, stuck, and exhausted by their relationships.
- Helping people reduce the volatility and invalidation in their relationships with narcissistic, antisocial, and borderline partners, parents, siblings, and adult children.
Interviews with Amber
Listen to podcast interviews with Amber Ault about helping people identify and exit from toxic relationships.
- The Wise Lesbian Guide podcast interview at Concious Girlfriend
- The Five Step Exit podcast interview with Dick Goldberg
What clients are saying
Thanks Amber! I feel lucky to have found you as you have really helped me get through this "growth period". I have turned the corner and have been feeling happy more than not.
You were a Godsend to us. I am so glad I found you.
