Amy Balentine, Ph.D.

Owner and Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Dr. Balentine works with children, teens, and adults who are willing to step into nature-based and mindfulness work, especially to treat issues including anxiety, depression, trauma, loss, relationship challenges, and dysregulation. She integrates a number of evidence-based interventions into therapy, including EMDR, CBT, play therapy, ACT, DBT, and IFS. 

She is a mindfulness teacher and has trained at UCSD Center for Mindfulness, where she also teaches a mindful self-compassion program for children she co-developed with fellow teacher Lorraine Hobbs. They are also the co-authors of the Self-Compassion Workbook for Kids published in 2022. 

She loves working throughout the city and is also employed in a primary care setting at Christ Community Health Services where she practices integrated behavioral health with underserved populations.

She is passionate about addressing the mind-body within the ecology of the local landscape. She has found mindfulness to be a healing, grounding, and connecting way of relating to herself and the world and shares mindfulness practices both in therapy and in mindfulness meditation classes, retreats, and trainings for professionals as well as students at area schools. 

Education

Dr. Balentine has a Doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Kentucky in 2002 and completed her internship at the Professional Psychology Internship Consortium at UT in 2001. She also completed her fellowship in developmental disabilities from UT in 2003.

Interests

When not working, she spends time birding, gardening, walking her dog, and finding other ways to spend time in nature while connecting with friends, her husband and two teenage children.

Contact

amy.balentine@mc4ml.com

901-537-2900