About Amy
Dr. Amy Cuellar welcomes people who are anxious, stressed, or struggling with mood and motivation. She focuses on practical steps that help clients manage symptoms like depression, bipolar mood shifts, panic, phobias, and sleep disruptions.
Dr. Cuellar uses clear language and short-term tools so people can try things that fit into their daily lives. She practices from a cognitive behavioral framework, helping clients notice unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going.
Background and approach
When life changes or transitions cause trouble, she often uses solution-focused techniques to identify strengths and small next steps. Trauma-focused methods are used when past events continue to affect mood or safety. Dr.
Cuellar trained in clinical psychology and completed intensive internship and post-doctoral work at VA hospitals. She draws on 17 years of experience supporting people with mood disorders, anxiety, stress, and complicated life changes. Her background includes research and publications on mood and trauma-related problems.
Sessions are collaborative. She works with each person to set clear goals and build skills to manage symptoms and reach meaningful life aims. The aim is for clients to become more confident using what they learn outside of sessions.
She offers services in English and Spanish from her Texas practice and uses approaches that match each person’s goals. Dr. Cuellar describes the work as a team effort where the client’s knowledge of themselves matters as much as clinical guidance.
Approaches that translate to online care
Dr. Cuellar often uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety, panic, or low mood going. CBT is task-oriented and works well for problems like phobias, panic attacks, sleep issues, and depressive symptoms.She also uses solution-focused therapy when someone is coping with a life transition or needs quick, practical steps. That approach centers on identifying what is already working and building small, achievable changes toward the client’s goals.
Choosing the best approach is a shared process. Dr. Cuellar reviews concerns, goals, and preferences with each person and adjusts methods as the work unfolds. She aims to match techniques to what the client needs and to teach skills that can be used between sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice, phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a quick check-in, and messaging supports brief updates or ongoing tracking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue care when travel or work makes in-person visits difficult.
Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Dr. Cuellar address?
What is her general approach in sessions?
How much clinical experience does she have?
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
Can I work with her if I speak Spanish?
Are online or remote sessions available?
How does payment and cost work?
What are the first steps to begin therapy?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.