About Amy

AMY NUTTBROCK is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, registered with the Washington State Board of Health and the Oregon Board of Licensed Social Workers.

She graduated from Emerson College (Boston, MA) in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts in Writing, Literature and Publishing. She later received her Master of Social Welfare (MSW) from the University of California Berkeley with a specialization in child and family services.

Over the past two decades, Amy has worked within a wide range of clinical settings throughout Boston, Massachusetts; the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento, California — including juvenile detention centers, adolescent psychiatric facilities, sexual trauma organizations, residential treatment programs, and school-based mental health service systems. Much of her early work focused on supporting high-risk adolescents and their families through complex trauma and systemic challenges.

Today, Amy’s private practice serves adults, teens, and couples navigating relational distress, depression, anxiety, trauma (specifically sexual trauma), and grief. She provides supervision to clinical social work associates (CSWAs) collecting hours towards licensure. She also works with Educational Service District (ESD) 112 in Vancouver, Washington, providing consultation to school-based mental health professionals.

Amy was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. Her mother is a first-generation Ukrainian immigrant; her father, a retired logger and woodworker with a deep love for Pacific Northwest history. Their influence instilled in her a reverence for resilience, craftsmanship, and story — all qualities that inform the way she listens and works with people.

Outside the therapy room, Amy loves solo traveling abroad, watching horror films, taking really long walks in the woods, daydreaming, and spending quiet hours at the barn with horses. She believes healing often begins in the simple acts of slowing down, noticing, and reconnecting with what feels most alive.