About Amy
Amy Appino is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience helping people navigate relationship strain, parenting stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. She focuses on practical steps that make daily life feel more manageable. Amy keeps sessions straightforward and calm to help people talk about what matters most.
She creates an open space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment. Conversations aim to identify patterns that get in the way and small changes that can help.
Background and approach
Amy often uses simple exercises and real-life practice between sessions so progress carries into everyday routines. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, and addiction-related problems. She also supports people facing chronic illness, caregiver strain, and major life changes.
When family issues come up, Amy helps individuals sort communication problems and boundaries. Amy draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and mindfulness. She matches techniques to each person’s needs and goals rather than using a one-size-fits-all method.
Expect a collaborative process where the client’s priorities guide the plan. Based in Indiana, Amy offers care by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. She aims to make therapy fit a person’s schedule and daily life.
Taking the first step can feel hard, and Amy focuses on steady, doable progress.
Evidence-informed approaches delivered online
Amy commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, so they can act on what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change patterns that cause distress.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Amy will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then try methods that fit those needs. Together they adjust techniques over time so the work stays useful and relevant to daily life.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls allow more face-to-face interaction, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for quick check-ins, and messaging supports short updates or ongoing coaching between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy schedules while keeping the focus on practical progress and skills development.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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