​Amy is an award-winning eating disorder recovery advocate, professional speaker, trained suicide hotline crisis counselor, certified online counseling and intervention specialist, and suicide prevention trainer. She has worked in mental health education and suicide prevention for over ten years. She specializes in youth mental health and addresses the root causes of the youth mental health crisis, not the symptoms. She believes trauma and emotional pain fuel the crisis, and until we address the real issues, the crisis will never end. 

Amy is also a former pre-professional classical ballet dancer who survived an 18-year battle with bulimia. In 2013, she founded the nonprofit organization Dancing with ED, Inc., to inspire all dance community members to love and care for their bodies through eating disorder awareness, outreach, and education. Dance is her passion. You can find her taking classes at Ballet Arizona on the weekends.

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Her powerful testimony of triumph over suicide and living with a mental health condition, bipolar II, and PTSD has been heard by over 5,000 young people across the Southwest. She speaks nationally for schools, colleges, and conferences. 

In addition to speaking and training, I am now offering one-on-one coaching to parents who are struggling to help their teen or young adult navigate the difficult, often toxic mental health care system.

"I give them practical tools, help them set goals, and, most importantly, give them hope and the knowledge they are not alone in trying to help their child."