About Amy
Amy Salim is a licensed independent social worker (LISW) in Ohio with 17 years of professional experience. She helps people manage stress and anxiety, work through addictions, and regain confidence. Amy focuses on practical steps and clear conversations to support day-to-day change.
She approaches sessions with the view that each person knows their own story best. Amy draws on clients' existing strengths to identify manageable goals. She keeps language simple and offers straightforward tools to use between sessions.
Background and approach
Clients often come for help with relationship struggles, low self-esteem, or the disruption of life transitions. Amy also supports people dealing with blended family issues, body image concerns, and codependency. Counseling covers problems such as commitment worries, communication breakdowns, and coping after separation.
Her work can include addressing substance use and related behaviors, and she assists those facing guilt, shame, infidelity, or jealousy. Amy also helps people explore life purpose and midlife shifts, including the challenges of non-monogamous relationships. Sessions aim to be collaborative and goal-focused.
Amy uses simple techniques to build coping skills and improve day-to-day functioning. She encourages small, sustainable steps so progress feels doable and real.
How evidence-based techniques work online
Amy uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach emphasizes skill-building for stress and anxiety, teaching breathing, grounding, and thought-management strategies that help reduce worry and improve day-to-day functioning. Another approach concentrates on building healthier relationship habits and communication skills, with role-play and concrete communication practices to try between sessions.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. From there she will suggest techniques to try and adjust them as progress is made, working together to find the best fit.
Online therapy makes these approaches easier to access. Video calls let people look at body language and use screen-shared worksheets. Phone sessions can fit a shorter check-in or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging offer ongoing, brief support between sessions and a way to track thoughts or practice new skills in real time. These options give flexibility to match therapy to a person’s schedule and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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