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.

Amy has worked in a variety of settings within urbanized areas of Oakland, Sacramento, and San Leandro, California: juvenile detention centers; residential and inpatient adolescent psychiatric facilities; and school and community-based programs where she has worked extensively with high-risk adolescents and their families.  Today, she primarily works with adults, teens and couples struggling with relational issues; depression, trauma, and anxiety. Additionally, she works for Educational Service District (ESD) 112 in Vancouver, WA as a Clinical Supervisor.

Amy was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. Her mother is a first generation Ukrainian immigrant and her father is a United States-born, retired logger, wood worker, and amateur historian of the Pacific Northwest. She has lived in Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, and now SW Washington. She loves stories, wild animals, and relics from the past. In her spare time she enjoys trekking mountains, solo traveling abroad, watching horror movies, collecting prehistoric fossils, listening to podcasts, and riding horses.