Starting school using School of the Air, three hours out of Halls Creek, didn't stop Amy finishing her schooling on an academic scholarship to Perth Modern School. An academic at heart, she finished school and proceeded down the road to complete a law and communications degree at the University of Western Australia.

With no intention of being a practising lawyer but knowing that social justice was her calling, she focused as much on social work, community development and human rights as she did on the law. An interest in human rights took her to live in the Netherlands where she studied a specialised unit on the Rights of the Child — which is where her interest in family law really began.

Realising the most effective human rights work she could do was right here at home, Amy completed her restricted legal practice at the South West Community Legal Centre and continued on at the centre, with a break to work in government, until she decided to start her own firm in 2026.

From 2019–2021 she worked for the Commonwealth Government as well as Local Governments to pursue a long-held special interest in administrative law.