About

Amy Lewis Bear is a Licensed Professional Counselor in private practice who specializes in helping individuals recover from emotionally abusive relationships. Through her work over the past seventeen years, she has been on a mission to expand awareness of emotional abuse and loss of self in intimate relationships. Her PsychologyToday.com blog, “From Charm to Harm”, is read in over twenty countries, and her YouTube videos provide viewers with helpful information about their relationship issues. She’s the author of “From Charm to Harm: The Guide to Spotting, Naming, and Stopping Emotional Abuse in Intimate Relationships”, and her second book, “When Loving You Means Losing Me”, will be released in 2026. Amy has been interviewed on major market talk shows across the U.S., including appearances on KNXV-ABC’s “Sonoran Living” (Phoenix), CBS-Warner’s “San Diego Living”, and “Virginia This Morning” on WTVR-TV in Richmond.