Grief Support

Amy Berman

Sequoia Psychological Services

Dr. Amy Berman is credentialed as a National Register Health Service Psychologist and is an independently licensed psychologist in the states of Oregon, Washington, Hawaii and Maryland. She has been working in the mental health field since 2000, and has been providing psychotherapy services via telemental health since 2015. She specializes in providing evidence-based psychotherapies and somatic and attachment focused work. Her areas of expertise include working with individuals with anxiety and depression related concerns, and those who have experienced the full range of psychological trauma, grief and loss. Dr. Berman offers an attachment, somatic and mindfulness approach to promote psychological growth and transformation, and she continues her training with the Hakomi Institute of the Pacific Northwest. She is a Certified Grief Educator, trained by world-renown grief and loss expert, David Kessler. Dr. Berman holds provider status in evidence-based treatments, including the gold-standard therapies for PTSD. She is an EMDR International Association trained EMDR provider, with extensive advanced specialty training in EMDR for grief and loss and Somatic and Attachment Focused (S.A.F.E) EMDR, which brings in transformational aspects of body centered psychotherapies while maintaining fidelity to the EMDR model. Her advanced EMDR training also includes Ego State interventions and Internal Family Systems (parts work), and EMDR for grief and mourning.