About Amy
Amy Appino is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Indiana with 20 years of experience. She helps people who are coping with anxiety, depression, relationship troubles, parenting stress, ADHD, grief, and the effects of trauma and addiction. Amy aims to make starting therapy feel manageable and respectful of each person's pace.
Amy offers a calm, direct style in sessions. She focuses on practical steps that people can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Conversations cover real-life challenges like communication problems, intimacy-related issues, and juggling caregiving or health concerns. Her approach draws on several well-known methods to match what each person needs. Amy uses tools from cognitive behavioral ideas to help change unhelpful thoughts.
She also uses acceptance-based and mindfulness practices to build coping skills for strong emotions. Over two decades she has worked with people facing family conflict, blended family issues, chronic illness, and end-of-life concerns. She also supports those dealing with addiction, eating-related problems, hoarding, and serious medical challenges like cancer or HIV/AIDS.
Amy provides sessions in English and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Therapy operates through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
How Amy Uses Evidence-Based Approaches Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that match their values. It can help when anxiety or depression get in the way of living the life someone wants. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical strategies to change patterns that cause distress. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication; it can be useful for people who struggle with overwhelming feelings or relationship conflict.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amy collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and daily life. She may blend tools from different approaches so sessions stay practical and focused on what the person wants to change.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions can recreate a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and messaging or live chat can help people fit therapy into busy days. These formats make it easier to keep momentum between appointments and to access consistent support from a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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