About Amy
Amy Spallinger is a licensed clinical social worker with 22 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and depression. She draws on practical methods to help clients build confidence and find clearer coping steps. Amy speaks in plain language and focuses on small, steady progress that people can use day to day.
Her work emphasizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness tools to reduce overwhelming thoughts and strong emotions.
Background and approach
She also uses Narrative Therapy to help people make sense of difficult events and Trauma-Focused Therapy when past hurts keep showing up in the present. These approaches are aimed at reducing panic, easing phobias, and improving mood. Amy believes the person in therapy knows their life best.
She listens for strengths and helps people connect those strengths to specific actions. Sessions often include short skills practice, gentle reflection, and straightforward feedback. She has supported clients with ADHD, body image struggles, and family of origin issues, and has experience addressing first responder stress, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and fertility-related distress.
Amy works from Indiana and conducts sessions in English. Starting therapy with Amy means setting clear, achievable goals. She helps people track progress and adjust plans when needed.
The focus is on making real changes that fit each person's life.
How Amy's Approaches Work Online
Amy uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thought patterns and try new behaviors. CBT sessions often include small experiments and practical homework to reduce anxiety and panic. She also draws on Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that calm the body and steady focus.Narrative Therapy is used to look at the stories people tell about themselves. By noticing those stories, clients can decide which parts to keep and which parts to reframe. These approaches can help with phobias, low mood, trauma responses, and stress-related problems.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Amy will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals and comfort level, and she adjusts plans as progress is tracked. Goals are concrete and reviewed regularly so sessions stay focused on what matters most.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls let therapists and clients use visual cues and screen-sharing for exercises. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or have shorter, more frequent touchpoints during busy weeks.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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