About Amy
Amy Freeman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 11 years of experience. She holds the credentials LCSW, MD, and LCSW-C and practices in Maryland. Amy focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood problems, trauma, ADHD, and anger.
Amy uses straightforward, practical methods in sessions. She helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. She also teaches skills for emotional regulation and managing intense reactions.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each persons needs.
Background and approach
Her background includes working in school settings with young adults who have developmental disabilities. That work involved coordinating with educators and allied professionals to address learning and behavior needs. Amy draws on that experience to create clear plans and realistic goals.
People who work with her often focus on building coping strategies. She teaches simple tools for everyday use, like breathing and grounding techniques, and practical ways to change patterns of thinking. These tools are useful for anxiety, mood shifts, and stress management.
Amy aims to make therapy a steady, manageable process. She helps people break challenges into small steps and track progress. The emphasis is on skills you can use between sessions and steady improvement over time.
How evidence-based methods work online
Amy often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in her online practice. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which helps with anxiety, depression, and mood swings. DBT teaches skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and reducing impulsive reactions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist and client review symptoms, goals, and what feels practical. Then they pick strategies to try and adjust them based on what helps most. This collaborative process makes it easier to find tools that fit daily life.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face when more connection is helpful. Phone can be lower bandwidth and easier for quick check-ins. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when typing works better than talking. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into a busy schedule.
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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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