About Amy
Dr. Amy Guertin is a licensed clinical professional counselor with 29 years of experience helping people manage anxiety and stress. She works with adults who feel overwhelmed by worry, panic, mood shifts, or the strain of life changes.
Her style is straightforward and practical, aimed at easing day-to-day struggles so people can function better at home and work. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thought patterns and try new responses.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is part of her approach when clients want to build values-based goals and tolerate difficult emotions while moving forward. Client-centered work means she listens carefully and shapes the pace to each person’s needs. Many clients bring concerns about parenting, relationships, attention differences, or trauma.
She offers short-term goal-focused work and longer-term support when needed. Problem-solving and solution-focused techniques are used to identify practical steps between sessions. Her practice emphasizes clear communication and simple skills people can use immediately.
Sessions aim to make progress feel manageable, with tools for panic attacks, social anxiety, low self-esteem, and coping with major life transitions. Dr. Guertin draws on decades of clinical experience to guide each person toward achievable change.
She practices in Illinois and conducts sessions in English. People who prefer talking through issues by phone, video, live chat, or text-based messaging can choose the format that fits their routine.
How her approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take steps toward those values even when anxiety or difficult feelings are present. It focuses on small values-driven actions and learning to live with uncomfortable thoughts rather than trying to push them away.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change thinking patterns and behaviors that keep anxiety or low mood active. It often includes practical exercises, breathing or grounding strategies for panic, and homework tasks to practice new responses between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences and try methods that fit their situation. Together they review what helps and adjust the plan, keeping the focus on useful, achievable steps.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video is useful for longer conversations and teaching skills; phone can work when bandwidth is limited; live chat or text-based messaging can suit brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to keep regular sessions, practice skills between meetings, and fit therapy into daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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