Amy Berman, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist

Unchosen suffering can be profoundly agonizing. What happens to us in life, can leave us feeling depleted, overwhelmed and lost. We’re here to help you navigate this landscape so you can restore your sense of wellness and find personal meaning. We offer evidence-based psychotherapy that is both mind-body focused and trauma informed to enhance your own inherent, natural capacity to heal and restore. “There are losses that rearrange the world. Deaths that change the way you see everything, grief that tears everything down. Pain that transports you to an entirely different universe, even while everyone else thinks nothing has really changed.” — Megan Devine Dr. Amy Berman is credentialed as a National Register Health Service Psychologist and is an independently licensed psychologist in the states of Oregon, Washington, 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 working with individuals who have experienced the full range of psychological trauma, grief and loss. She has a deeply personal commitment to working with individuals facing devastating loss, including grieving parents with perinatal loss. Her professional training includes an American Psychological Association (APA) accredited doctoral residency in psychology at the Portland VA Health Care System (HCS), and an APA-accredited postdoctoral fellowship in PTSD/trauma at the Maryland VA HCS. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (Ph.D.) from Tennessee State University and earned an advanced graduate certificate in Working with Survivors of Violence, Torture, and Trauma from the Department of Psychology at University of Maryland College Park. Her work experience includes longstanding service with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, including as a specialty provider on the PTSD Clinical Team at Portland VA in Oregon. Dr. Berman holds provider status in evidence-based treatments, including the gold-standard therapies for PTSD, Cognitive Processing Therapy and Prolonged Exposure. She is an EMDR International Association trained EMDR provider, with specialty training in 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. Dr. Berman is working with world-renown grief and loss expert, David Kessler to complete the training requirements to become a Certified Grief Educator. As a HeartMath® Certified Practitioner, she provides heart rate variability biofeedback training for stress, anxiety and self-regulation. In addition, she has advanced specialty training in the use of clinical hypnosis in psychotherapy through the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH). She currently serves as Vice President on the Executive Board of the Oregon Society of Clinical Hypnosis, an ASCH component society. She enjoys restoring her spirit by hiking a quiet trail in the great outdoors of the Pacific Northwest. After her son’s death, she took up the art of metalsmithing as an outlet for her grief. And she continues to appreciate the meditative aspects of being seated at a work bench, setting a beautiful stone.