About Amy
Amy Freeman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who practices in Maryland. She brings 11 years of clinical experience and a calm, nonjudgmental presence to sessions. She aims to help people manage stress, anxiety, mood challenges, and ADHD-related struggles in everyday life.
Amy focuses on practical skills and clear steps. She uses approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to change unhelpful thought patterns and teach coping tools.
Background and approach
She also incorporates mindfulness and trauma-focused techniques when trauma or overwhelming stress is part of the picture. Her background includes work in school settings with young adults who have developmental disabilities and with their families. That work involved coordinating with educators, speech and occupational therapists, and behavior specialists to address learning and behavioral needs.
She draws on that multidisciplinary experience when planning therapy goals. Sessions concentrate on identifying patterns, building coping skills, and practicing new ways of handling emotions and impulses. Amy helps people break big problems into small, workable steps and tracks progress along the way.
She encourages straightforward conversation and practical homework between sessions. People who come to Amy often want help with anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, bipolar symptoms, anger, and ADHD-related difficulties. She works in English and provides care through multiple online formats.
Her style is steady, direct, and supportive.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Amy commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. CBT helps people break problems into small steps and practice new thinking patterns in everyday situations.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills work, which teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. DBT-style skills can be especially useful for managing intense emotions, impulsivity, and anger so daily functioning improves.
Finding the right approach happens together. Amy will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful during early sessions and adjust the plan as needed. The process is collaborative, with regular check-ins about what methods are helping and where to change course.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls approximate face-to-face conversation for skills practice and role-play. Phone sessions work well for people with limited bandwidth or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients share progress, ask quick questions, or get support between scheduled meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and fit it into work, school, or caregiving routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Codependency
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Maryland, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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