About Amy
Amy Spallinger is a licensed clinical social worker with 22 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She uses straightforward language and practical strategies so parents and busy adults can understand next steps. Amy emphasizes strengths and builds on what already works in a person's life.
Clients often come for help with trauma and abuse, depression, low self-esteem, and ADHD-related struggles. She also supports people facing panic attacks, phobias, grief around end-of-life care, fertility challenges, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and usable tools rather than long theory talks. Amy blends cognitive behavioral approaches with mindfulness and narrative ideas. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, practice calmer responses, and reshape the story they tell about themselves.
She also draws from solution-focused and trauma-focused techniques to address immediate problems and safety when needed. Her aim is practical change that fits each person’s life. Amy helps clients try small steps between sessions and checks what works.
She values collaboration and makes room for the client’s own expertise about their life. Amy works with people across a wide range of concerns, including communication problems, control issues, family of origin questions, and issues tied to first responder roles. She is based in Indiana and offers therapy in English.
How Amy's approaches work online
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. Online CBT can help reduce anxiety symptoms, manage panic, and change patterns that keep problems going. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and ground attention in the present moment. These skills are useful for panic, worry, and staying steady through difficult emotions. Narrative therapy helps people reframe the stories they tell about themselves and their past. It can be effective for trauma, shame, and improving self-esteem by opening up alternative, more helpful perspectives.Deciding which approach to use is a team effort. Amy works with each client to pick techniques that match their goals, daily life, and comfort level. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as progress and needs change so the work stays focused and useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face work and skill practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports short reflections or coaching-style follow-ups. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family routines, or caregiving schedules while keeping consistent momentum.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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