About Amy
Amy Silberman is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in New York with 24 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, ADHD-related challenges, and relationship concerns in a practical, down-to-earth way. Her sessions begin by listening closely to what matters most to the person in front of her.
She helps people untangle communication problems, build self-esteem, and cope with life changes like career shifts or parenting strains.
Background and approach
Therapy is paced to fit each person's needs and goals. Drawing on client-centered and cognitive behavioral methods, she uses concrete tools to change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Mindfulness techniques are added when breathing and attention skills can ease anxiety or improve sleep.
She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at repeating patterns that cause distress. Amy has worked with people facing grief, compassion fatigue, eating and body image concerns, fertility and adoption questions, and chronic health challenges. Her approach combines short-term problem solving with deeper reflection when needed.
People leave sessions with clear next steps they can try between meetings. She offers a calm, respectful space to talk through difficult choices and everyday struggles. Before scheduling a first full session, she prefers a brief conversation to make sure the fit feels right for both parties.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Amy often uses client-centered therapy to create a listening-focused space where people feel heard and understood. That approach helps when someone needs support sorting feelings, making decisions, or improving relationships. She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and practice new behaviors that reduce anxiety or improve sleep and focus.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amy collaborates with each person to decide which methods match their goals, preferences, and daily life. She adjusts pacing and tools as progress is made, combining short-term problem solving with deeper reflection when useful.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper work, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is low or a quieter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging let people send brief updates or get support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity through life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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