Amy Andrus

Therapist Experience Director | CSAT | LMFT | EFT

Amy has been a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist since 2000. She has taught several BYU Family Science Department courses, including Preparation for Marriage and Parenting. Amy published her Masters Thesis in the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy and presented at multiple National Conferences. Amy worked at the BYU Women's Services and Resources Center, counseling many students. It was during her time at the Women’s Services and Resources Center that her eyes opened to the world of sexual addiction and trauma. In addition, Amy spent time working in a residential treatment facility where she counseled adolescents struggling with a wide array of addictions. These addictions include eating disorders, drugs, alcohol, and sex addiction.


Amy's life has been personally affected by sex addiction. She knows the struggle, shame, and guilt the addict experiences. She understands the pain, confusion, and self-esteem battle the addict’s partner suffers first-hand. Amy believes that with honesty in a marriage, true intimacy can emerge and relationships can have incredible depth, compassion, forgiveness, kindness, and love. Amy has found it rewarding to facilitate individual change and work with the family system to ensure long-term growth and change. 


In addition to working with adolescents and their families, Amy also enjoys working with couples who are premarital, marital, or in the process of blending families. Amy is passionate about group work with her belief that our connections with others create meaning. 



Amy's greatest defining experience of her life is motherhood. She has six children the youngest having Down syndrome. Her children have taught her countless lessons most importantly, Her youngest daughter has Down Syndrome, and raising her has taught her numerous life lessons.

Credentials

 

  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT)
  • Certified Sexual Addiction Therapist (CSAT)
  • Bloom Course Author ( Bloomforwomen.com )
  • EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) Training
  • EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy) Training
  • ART (Accelerated Resolution Therapy) Training
  • SSP (Safe & Sound Protocol - Stephen Porges) Training
  • Therapist Experience Director
  • Addo Certified: Betrayal Trauma