About Amy Williams

I'm Amy Williams, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Certified Yoga Teacher based in Milford, Massachusetts. I work with women healing from complex trauma, burnout, and sexual trauma — through Somatic Experiencing, somatic yoga, and a whole-body approach to nervous system healing — both in person and virtually across Massachusetts.

I'm a Gemini sun and a lifelong student with an insatiable curiosity for the body, mind, and spirit. Watching the sun glisten off water will always stop me in my tracks; I treasure the magic in the mundane.

After finishing graduate school to become a therapist, I still felt unequipped to actually help people through trauma. So I kept digging. Lo and behold, the answers emerged not from within textbooks and classrooms but rather in my body and on my yoga mat.

Becoming a Certified Yoga Teacher, specializing in yoga for emotional health and healing, is what taught me how the nervous system moves through every part of our lives. It changed how I saw myself, too. That's when it clicked: becoming a therapist wasn't just "a calling" the way I'd always believed. It was also how I was resolving stress I'd been carrying in my own body for years without knowing it.

My own journey with somatic therapy, yoga, and psychedelics helped ease the depression and anxiety I'd lived with for most of my adult life. It brought me closer to a power bigger than myself, and it gave me a more curious, more compassionate relationship with others and the world around me. This is the work I now get to hold space for with my clients, having walked it firsthand.

Outside my professional roles, I'm a homeschooling mother to two young children, which keeps my hands (and heart) plenty full. I believe nature is our best co-regulator — when there's an emotion too big for me to hold, I trust Mother Nature to hold it instead.

Supporting others on their healing journey makes me feel alive. I can't wait to connect and help you access your own energy and vitality, too.

The training that supports my work →

Credentials

  • Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC)

  • Certified Yoga Teacher (CYT)

Education

  • Masters of Arts in Counseling Psychology - Framingham State University

  • Bachelors of Arts in Psychology, Minor in Neuroscience - Framingham State University

Certifications 

  • Somatic Experiencing Practitioner Training: Beginning Level I-III, Intermediate I-III, December 2022 - Present

  • The National Child Traumatic Stress Network: Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)

  • Soulful Yoga Therapy: Yoga for Emotional Health Module I: Yoga for Anxiety & Depression

  • Soulful Yoga Therapy: Yoga for Emotional Health Module II: Yoga for Trauma

  • Soulful Yoga Therapy: Online Yoga for Emotional Health and Healing

  • PESI: Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy for Trauma

  • PESI: Bringing Trauma-Sensitive Yoga into the Clinical Mental Health Setting

  • PESI: Certified Dialectical Behavior Therapy Professional Training (C-DBT)

  • Waking Womb: Womb to World- Somatic Perinatal Trauma Recovery

  • Yoga of 12 Step Recovery (Y12SR) Leadership Training

  • SUP YO Stand Up Paddleboard Yoga Teacher Training

  • bCalm Power Yoga 200Hr Yoga Teacher Training