About Amy
Amy Haake is an Ohio-based licensed professional clinical counselor who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She keeps sessions relaxed and conversational while teaching skills to manage strong emotions and day-to-day strain. Amy focuses on helping people find balance when work or life changes start to feel overwhelming.
She often works with people who are at risk of burnout and whose stress affects their relationships, parenting, or job performance. Amy offers straightforward tools for managing stress, setting boundaries, and finding healthier ways to cope with intense feelings.
Background and approach
She encourages emotional acceptance so feelings become useful information rather than a source of shame. Amy blends several therapy styles to meet each person where they are. She uses practical exercises, mindful awareness, and skill-building to reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Sessions emphasize small, doable steps that can fit into a busy life. Her manner is warm and nonjudgmental. She avoids stigmatizing labels and treats people with respect and sensitivity.
The tone in sessions is calm and laid back, aimed at making hard conversations feel more like a helpful discussion. Amy has nine years of experience and holds an Ohio LPCC - licensed professional clinical counselor. She has supported people with depression, anxiety, substance use concerns, parenting stress, career burnout, trauma, and mood disorders.
She invites prospective clients to take a first step toward clearer priorities and less daily overwhelm.
Approaches That Translate Well to Online Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and focus on actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and people who feel pulled in too many directions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thought and behavior patterns and teaches concrete skills to change them. It often helps with panic, persistent worry, low mood, and unhelpful habits.
Clients can expect the therapist to work collaboratively to find the best approach. Amy will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels realistic. Together they try techniques and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full conversation and real-time skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a short check-in fits a work break. Live chat and text messaging let people send notes or check in between sessions and can be helpful for quick coping reminders. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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