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On Being a Joyful Survivor of Trauma with Amy Lynch LCSW


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In this expansive and heartfelt conversation, Cassie sits down with therapist, healer, and joy-seeker Amy Rose Lynch, LCSW (she/they), whose approach to therapy and life is anything but traditional — and deeply, refreshingly human. This conversation discusses therapy, identity, embodiment, and the liberating practice of choosing joy.

Amy brings a radically honest and intuitive approach to therapy, shaped by her lived experiences as a biracial (Mexican and Irish), queer, neurodivergent, ethically non-monogamous, and highly sensitive person. Together, Cassie and Amy explore how healing happens not in spite of complexity, but through it.

Together, they explore:

  • Why embracing joy (especially in small, "unproductive" moments) is both revolutionary and necessary

  • How Amy integrates non-traditional practices like tarot, ancestral work, and humor into therapy

  • What it means to practice therapy through a decolonized, embodied, intuitive lens

  • The impact of embracing neurodivergence, spiritual connection, and ethical non-monogamy in both life and practice

  • The beauty of relationships that don’t fit the mold — and how therapy can honor our complexity

  • How Amy is redefining success, rest, and meaning as she enters her 40s

Whether you're a therapist, a curious human, or someone craving permission to live more fully in your truth, this episode is a deep exhale — a reminder that healing can be joyful, sacred, and unapologetically real.


Guest Bio:

Amy Rose Lynch (she/they) is an LCSW in private practice and is continually curious about all things decolonizing therapy (shoutout Dr. Jennifer Mullan), trauma healing and metabolization, somatics, polyvagal theory (she loves a flexible nervous system) and learning and growing with the Tarot as well as keeping it as real as she can. Person to person and nervous system to nervous system.

Amy is a mother, a partner, queer, neurodivergent, ethically nonmonogamous, highly sensitive, deliberate about regulating her dopamine levels, biracial (of Mexican and Irish descent) and funny to boot. Amy is a joyful survivor of childhood trauma and finds it a sacred calling to use her training and life to walk alongside others in this wide, wild world.


More from Amy Lynch:
🌐 Website: Wild Open Joy
📝 Sign up for her newsletter, book a session, or read her reflections
📱Follow Amy on Instagram: @wildopenjoy


Let’s Connect:
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