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I help self-aware women overcome the patterns keeping them stuck. Psilocybin-assisted therapy and animal-assisted therapy coming in 2025.

I specialize in trauma and women’s issues, using brainspotting and talk therapy for deep healing. Aligned Compass Podcast with Amber Christine

22/04/2026

Your therapy résumé is cute.
Gold star for self-awareness.
Now let’s talk about why your body still reacts like it’s 2009 every time someone gets distant.

Insight ≠ resolution.

My Brainspotting + trauma/attachment-informed intensives are built for the part of you that can’t be talked out of panic.

**Send this to** the friend who can explain her trauma perfectly but still spirals when someone takes too long to text back.

21/04/2026

If I ever relaxed… it would be OVER for everyone.
But my ADHD + nervous system said: “Let’s open 12 tabs and call it progress.”

What people don’t see is the *inner committee* that shows up the second you try to choose one idea.

- The **Visionary** part: “This is it. Start now. We’re finally doing it.”
- The **Perfectionist** part: “Only if we can do it the *right* way. Otherwise don’t start.”
- The **Protector** part: “If we pick wrong, we’ll waste time / get judged / fail. Safer to wait.”
- The **Exhausted** part: “Please stop. I can’t do another thing.”

And here’s the kicker: these parts can get **polarized**—meaning they’re all trying to help, but they end up pulling in opposite directions because their agendas and strategies are different.

The Visionary pushes harder → the Protector clamps down harder.
The Perfectionist raises the bar → the Exhausted part shuts everything down.
So you’re left in the middle feeling “stuck”… when really you’re in a tug-of-war.

Follow for trauma-informed ADHD support, nervous system tools, and parts-work-friendly reframes that don’t shame you into change.

30/03/2026

There is nothing magical about helping someone stay small.

What *is* powerful is helping someone reconnect with their reality, trust their own mind again, and remember they are allowed to leave what is harming them.

For many women in abusive or narcissistic relationships, the hardest part is not just leaving. It is untangling the confusion, self-doubt, fear, guilt, trauma bonding, and survival strategies that kept them stuck in the first place.

Therapy can be a place to rebuild self-trust, strengthen boundaries, and make decisions from clarity instead of coercion.

If you are exhausted from being manipulated, minimized, or made to question yourself, you are not crazy, and you are not weak.

You may just need support getting back to yourself.

I offer trauma therapy for women in Colorado. Intro calls can be booked in the link in bio.

26/03/2026

I don’t know about you, but I always found myself baffled at the great saint-like heroes like Viktor Frankl or Anne Frank who in their journals/texts reported having experienced joy in small moments while they were facing monstrous and barbaric conditions. I can’t even begin to compare my circumstances to theirs - but I’m starting to understand the psyche’s need to find joy - however desperate or small the stimulus - it doesn’t matter. I’m starting to find something in myself that pays more attention to the things up until now I’ve taken for granted, or felt gaslit by others when they told me to move my attention to those things.

I want to be clear - you can’t avoid the horrors and only direct your attention to “happy” things - that would be bypassing, enabling and toxic positivity. No, we as a culture have a strong bias against any feelings that provide discomfort, and those things need our thorough attention.

But we can also get stuck in a trauma response if that’s the only stimuli we’re taking in. While it’s important to stay informed and active in current events, we can easily overload our nervous systems and we need to inoculate ourselves to hopelessness by experiencing joy. We have to titrate our systems.

For more insights follow

24/03/2026

People love to talk about ADHD like it just means “you can’t focus because your phone ruined your brain.”

That is such a shallow and dismissive read of something much deeper.

ADHD is not just about attention or inattention. It’s about a nervous item that has wired in a lack of safety and developed around it - that’s why it’s classified as a “neurodevelopmental” disorder. And for a lot of people, especially people with high ACE scores (adverse childhood events), the story is bigger than “bad focus.”

When a child grows up with chronic stress, disruption, unpredictability, or lack of safety, the brain and nervous system adapt around that. That adaptation can shape how someone responds to stimulation, stress, memory, task initiation, emotional regulation, overwhelm, and follow-through.

That does not mean trauma and ADHD are the exact same thing. And it does not mean every person with ADHD has the same story. But acting like there is no relationship between childhood adversity, nervous system dysregulation, and how ADHD shows up is just ignorant.

There is a reason so many people with high ACE scores have spent years feeling scattered, overwhelmed, ashamed, “lazy,” or like basic functioning takes way more effort than it seems to for other people - because establishing environmental safety is always going to outweigh cognitive tasks in the hierarchy of needs. Being easily distracted by environmental variables is a signal.

This is why I care so much about looking beyond labels people use to dismiss themselves.
Not “What’s wrong with you?”
But “What did your system have to adapt to?”
“What was happening in the environment around you?”
“What makes sense when we look at the full picture?”

People deserve more than being told to get off their phones and try harder. They deserve context. They deserve support. And they deserve care that understands the nervous system, not just behavior.

I offer trauma-informed therapy for women in Colorado and am currently accepting new clients statewide.

If you want, I can also paste:
- the **on-screen text**
- a **shorter version for Instagram**
- and a **few first-line hook options** so you can test which opener hits best.

19/03/2026

These are the therapy wins I care about.

Not becoming more agreeable.
Not learning how to tolerate more.
Not finding prettier ways to explain away red flags.

I mean catching the red flag.
Setting the boundary anyway.
Realizing that being needed is not the same thing as being loved.

That kind of healing changes everything.

If you are ready for trauma therapy that helps you trust yourself more and abandon yourself less, book an intro call.

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1355 S Colorado Boulevard C-304

80222

Website

https://www.sitwithambie.com/

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Hero’s Journey Intuitive Coaching

I believe that every single person on this planet has been sent here to do or be something extraordinary, unique, innovative or noteworthy and contribute something to their community. I have seen many people who don’t reach that potential because of an event in their lives that led them to believe they aren’t capable of following through on their dreams or ideas. Every person’s story is different.

In the literary structure of the Hero’s Journey there are twelve steps every hero must endure to get to the end of their tale. Every Hero’s Journey is different, and each story twists the order of the steps to fit their own epoch. However, one thing that brings all of these narratives and heroes together is a defining event that makes our leading lady question everything. I usually identify this step as the ‘ordeal’. This is the part of the story that causes a deep inner crisis that she has to face in order to survive, drawing upon all of her previous skills and experiences in order to overcome her most difficult challenge. This part of the journey can cause our protagonist to take a few steps back and get stuck for a while.

In our everyday world, a defining event could be as simple or as seemingly small as being socialized to live an inauthentic life in a world that appears not to value the hero’s essential self.