About Amy
Amy Heim is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in New York with 15 years of experience. She focuses on anxiety and stress and helps people who are struggling with low self-esteem, depression, and major life transitions. Amy creates an inviting, nonjudgmental space so people can say what they really feel and think.
She uses straightforward, practical methods that aim to reduce overwhelming thoughts and build daily coping skills. Sessions are a place to sort feelings, try small changes, and notice what helps in real life.
Background and approach
Amy often blends strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help people notice unhelpful thinking and shift their responses. Amy also pays attention to patterns from early relationships and how they show up now. Attachment-based ideas are used to understand recurring fears around connection and abandonment.
Narrative techniques can help people rewrite the stories they tell about themselves when those stories feel stuck. Across concerns such as grief, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, or career stress, Amy aims to make goals clear and manageable. She supports exploration of values, improves communication skills, and works on practical plans for change.
The pace and focus are set by each person’s needs. People meet with her by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging when that fits their life. Amy’s approach is collaborative and grounded in what a person wants to work on next.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Amy often draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy when working online. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. Acceptance and commitment therapy emphasizes clarifying personal values and taking small action steps that feel meaningful, which can help when life feels overwhelming.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to decide which strategies fit their goals, comfort level, and daily routine. That collaborative process can include trying an approach for a few sessions and adjusting based on how helpful it feels.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is useful for deeper conversation and skill practice, phone calls are good when bandwidth is limited, live chat can offer a quicker check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing brief contact between sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and help people access therapy around work, childcare, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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