About Amy
Amy Petrill is a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) with 20 years of clinical experience. She works with adults coping with anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and major life changes. Her approach aims to make therapy practical and understandable for people who feel overwhelmed.
Amy centers sessions on what matters most to each person. She treats the client as the expert on their life and helps them set goals they can manage.
Background and approach
Conversations are collaborative and paced to match a client's needs and energy. She uses a mix of approaches that can include cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking, mindfulness practices to reduce stress, and trauma-focused tools when past events keep causing pain. EMDR is part of her toolkit for people who have trauma that remains stuck in their body or mind.
In sessions Amy focuses on clear skills and real-life problem solving. That can mean practicing new ways to respond to anxious thoughts, building routines to steady mood, or working through grief step by step. She also addresses related areas like chronic pain, workplace stress, parenting strain, and relationship patterns that come from family of origin issues.
Amy is based in Ohio and offers care in English. She is open to working with international clients and draws on two decades of experience to support people through both sudden and ongoing life challenges.
Approaches that translate to online care
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It often includes short exercises to practice between sessions and can help with anxiety, mood problems, and workplace stress.EMDR, or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, works with traumatic memories that keep replaying or causing intense reactions. In session a therapist uses structured steps to help the brain process those memories and reduce their emotional hold.
Mindfulness therapy teaches basic attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and bring awareness to strong emotions as they arise. These practices can be brief and easy to use during a busy day.
Amy will collaborate with each person to choose the best approach. She listens to a client's goals and preferences, then adjusts methods as progress is made. Finding the right fit is part of the work together rather than a fixed decision at the start.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face from different places, phone sessions can suit lower bandwidth or a quick check-in, and messaging or chat can help with short updates or between-session work. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or health needs, and they allow consistent contact even when life is crowded.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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