Amy Granger is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Registered Art Therapist. She obtained a Master’s Degree in Art Therapy and a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art from Herron School of Art and Design at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).
Amy is very passionate about the creative process and helping clients explore their strengths and needs through the art-making process. She has utilized art therapy interventions to help individuals explore challenges of mental illness, as well as to foster mental wellness through creative expression. While her clinical training and career experience includes the integration of art-making into the therapeutic process, she is also a skilled verbal therapist. Amy’s therapeutic approach includes an integration of strengths-based, insight-oriented, person-centered, and psychodynamic theories, with the use of cognitive behavioral therapy techniques as well.
Amy views her work as an honor. To walk with people in their journeys of self-discovery and support their process of finding the best individual ways to care for themselves is a cherished part of her role as a therapist. She is interested in helping clients gain insight into themselves, working to uncover core challenges that impact daily life, promoting healing, and integrating solutions that are personally meaningful and sustainable. Amy attends to psychotherapeutic care by aiding clients in evaluating their personal wellness as a whole, including aspects of physical, spiritual, social, and environmental well-being.
Amy has experience in working with individuals of all ages from diverse backgrounds; her clinical experience includes school-based counseling with children/adolescents, parents, and families, domestic violence survivors, caregiver groups, immigrants and refugees, medical patients, and short-term integrative care recipients. Her career experience also includes administrative, research, and educator roles at IUPUI.
