About Aimee
Aimee Paddock is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Indiana with more than two decades of work in mental health and addictions counseling. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety, struggling with depression, or coping with grief and loss.
Her approach is practical and straightforward, aimed at helping people take the next small step forward. She draws on a mix of therapy styles to shape sessions around each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to spot and shift unhelpful thinking patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills are offered for managing strong emotions and improving day-to-day coping. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) and psychodynamic ideas are also part of her toolkit when deeper relationship or life-pattern work is useful.
In sessions she works with clear goals and simple tools. That might include communication skills, relaxation practices, mindfulness, and steps to improve sleep or motivation. Aimee emphasizes small, achievable changes that add up over time.
She also integrates support for addiction, parenting concerns, family-of-origin issues, and other life stressors when they come up. Clients can expect a respectful, nonjudgmental space where Aimee tailors the plan to individual needs. She has particular experience with abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, codependency, and trauma and abuse.
Her style is collaborative - she helps people set realistic goals and build skills to reach them. Across 23 years in the field, she has worked with a wide range of concerns including bipolar symptoms, ADHD, relationship problems, and compassion fatigue. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
How these approaches work online
CBT helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different, more helpful thinking and behaviors. Online CBT sessions often include practical exercises and homework to practice between meetings, which can help with anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.DBT focuses on skills for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening relationships. In an online setting, DBT skill coaching and structured practice can be used to reduce overwhelm and support day-to-day coping.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and emotions to help people feel and express needs more clearly. This work can be helpful when relationship difficulties or attachment issues are part of what brings someone to therapy.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Aimee will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then blend methods as needed. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that fits the person, not a single fixed method.
Online sessions offer flexibility for different life demands. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging offer shorter check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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