Amy L. Holdbrooks, LLC

Set on the banks of the beautiful Tennessee River, Decatur, Alabama, is home to my private practice, which serves pre-teens through adults. As your therapist, my mission is to create a place of solace, comfort, security, and privacy, a setting that lends itself to building a relationship of solidarity and mutual respect. My office overlooks Historic Bank Street, with antique shops, restaurants, and stately two-hundred-year-old buildings. Just as the area inspires hospitality and warmth, my desire is to pass this same sense of refinement and attention to detail on to you. I have developed my practice on core Christian principles that I now understand because of my history of post-partum depression and anxiety. I feel authentically loved and understood when Christ shares his sufferings of sadness, sorrow, betrayal, and grief in passages like John 11:33-35 and Matthew 26:38-40. Not only does Christ empathically understand our despair, but he also lived it. My sense of self-worth and strength comes from Christ's suffering, the most agonizing and painful death (1 Peter 2:24), not because he deserved it but because he loved me. For this reason, God's saving work is infallible; the links in the chain are forever unbroken (Piper, 2007). As a long-term Psychiatric Social Worker and now as a Clinical Mental Health Counselor, I have worked with clients who were so bogged down in feelings of hopelessness and despair that they could not put together the words to form a coherent sentence. As someone who has also struggled with this same sense of darkness, I am not only a therapist but a Christian. I ruminate and pray for each of my clients daily. I call them by name and share their private pain with Christ. No matter the source of your faith and hope, we are all equally walking through this life together. Piper, J. (2013). Five points toward a deeper experience of God’s grace. Christian Focus Publication Ltd. ISBN 978-1-78191-252-2.