About Amy
Amy Max is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Florida with five years of professional experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood, or struggles with self-esteem. She also supports those facing relationship challenges, trauma and abuse, and concerns around panic or mood changes.
Amy centers sessions on each person’s strengths and experience. She treats the client as the expert on their life and works alongside them to identify practical steps forward.
Background and approach
Conversations are direct and simple, focused on what the person wants to change and what feels possible right now. Her work often addresses attachment and abandonment concerns, communication problems, and caregiver stress. She also helps people navigate divorce or separation, control issues, guilt and shame, and the emotional effects of pregnancy and childbirth.
Amy is familiar with panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, and patterns connected to narcissistic relationships. Sessions aim to build confidence and self-love while reducing symptoms that get in the way of daily life. Amy uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide interventions and homework that fit a client’s routine.
She keeps recommendations clear and concrete so people can practice skills between sessions. Therapy is offered in English and delivered online by video, phone, live chat, or messaging. People interested in starting are asked to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session according to availability.
Evidence-based approaches and online care that fit real life
Amy uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach helps people learn coping skills for anxiety and panic attacks, teaching breathing, grounding, and step-by-step exposure to reduce intense reactions. Another approach targets mood and self-esteem by identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying alternative ways of thinking and acting to improve day-to-day functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Amy treats the process as collaborative - she listens to your goals and adjusts methods based on what feels useful. Over several sessions she will suggest techniques, check how they work for you, and change course when needed so you get an approach that fits your life and preferences.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let you meet face to face when that helps build connection. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier on days when being on camera feels like too much. Live chat and messaging are helpful for short check-ins, tracking progress, and practicing skills between meetings. These formats make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, caregiving, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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