About Marvin
Marvin Amos is a licensed therapist in Tennessee who focuses on helping people manage phobias, mood challenges, and trauma-related concerns. He brings 12 years of clinical experience and a calm, direct approach that aims to make therapy understandable and usable for everyday life. He meets each person where they are and starts with practical steps.
Sessions often begin by identifying clear goals and simple skills to try between meetings. Marvin uses plain language and steady pacing so a worried parent can follow along and feel less overwhelmed.
Background and approach
His background includes work with depression, bipolar concerns, eating-related struggles, ADHD, and trauma and abuse. He also helps people facing abandonment, attachment issues, adoption and foster care questions, and caregiver stress. That range gives him perspective on how different problems can overlap and affect daily functioning.
Marvin draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to build tools for coping and change. Those methods translate into concrete skills - tracking thoughts and behaviors, practicing acceptance of difficult feelings, and learning emotional regulation strategies. In sessions he emphasizes collaboration and realistic plans.
People leave with short practice tasks and clearer next steps. Marvin aims to make progress steady and measurable, rather than rushed or theoretical.
How his approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose value-driven actions. Online ACT sessions usually involve short exercises, values clarification, and plans to try new behaviors between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) digs into the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches specific skills to change unhelpful patterns. In remote CBT, clients often complete thought records, behavioral experiments, and brief homework tasks together with the therapist. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clear communication skills. When used online, DBT techniques are taught in short segments and practiced with real-life examples to build coping strategies.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Marvin will discuss the different methods and help decide which fits the client’s goals, needs, and preferences. That decision is collaborative and may change over time as progress is measured and goals evolve.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill practice, phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or helpful when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick exchanges, and text messaging supports ongoing check-ins and brief coaching between appointments. These options make it easier to work therapy into busy lives.
Questions people ask
What concerns does Marvin commonly address?
What is his therapy style like?
How much clinical experience does he have?
What are his credentials and location?
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Can international clients work with him?
What session formats are offered?
How do costs and subscriptions work?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.