Amy Goodwin is a Licensed Behavioral Counselor and a Level 3 Certified Addictions Counselor. She has been practicing in the mental health field for 30 years. Her career started with supporting domestic violence survivors then transitioning into other disciplines within the field of Mental Health. She currently works for UCHealth as a behavioral health counselor.
Amy employs psychotherapeutic principals and health psychology in order to help patients understand the role of the brain/mind in the process of healing or the possible creation/exacerbation of disease in the body. She uses cognitive/behavioral techniques to help people feel more empowered over their perceptions of experience and therefore, becoming more proficient in understanding the role of their emotions in health process. Cognitive/behavioral therapy focuses on changing the automatic negative thoughts that can contribute to and worsen emotional difficulties, such as depression and anxiety. Her work with the UCHealth Pain Management Clinic since 2014 also provides her the unique qualification as a pain education specialist.
She has a Bachelor’s in Psychology from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, and a Master’s in Counseling from the University of Northern Colorado. She has been a level 3 Certified Addictions Counselor since 2007. She is also a certified EMDR provider as well as a HeartMath-trained biofeedback provider.
She has been working in the field of addictions and substance abuse since 2003. This field helps her support patients in understanding the effect of medications on their mood and the impact of medication side-effects on functioning.
This provider is credentialed to practice medicine at one or more UCHealth facilities but is not employed by any UCHealth facility. Contact information on this page may be for a non-UCHealth facility.
Locations
970.875.2633
970.875.2631Qualifications and experience
- Specialties
- Mental Health and Behavior
- Gender
- Female
- Languages spoken
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English
- Education
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Graduate
University of Northern Colorado
Undergraduate
Denison University in Granville
- Board Certification
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Certification Agency Specialty Year Level 3 Certified Addictions Counselor 2007 Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) HeartMath Biofeedback - Insurance
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