About Aimee
Aimee Dinschel helps people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, or big life changes find clearer footing. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Illinois and brings 16 years of experience to conversations about worry, panic, low self-esteem, and relationship patterns. Her style is straightforward and calm, aimed at making sessions feel manageable and useful from the first meeting.
She focuses on practical skills that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Sessions often include ways to notice unhelpful thinking, steady strong emotions, and try new communication habits. When trauma or past hurts come up, she helps people slow down and look at how those experiences affect current choices. Aimee favors a collaborative, client-centered way of working.
She invites people to set goals and test small changes between sessions. Progress is tracked in simple, observable steps so people can see what is helping. Her toolkit includes approaches that address thoughts, emotions, and relationships.
She uses techniques to challenge negative thinking, develop emotion regulation skills, and attend to internal parts of the self that hold pain or protective roles. These methods are adapted to each person’s needs. Therapy is offered through a range of online formats so people can choose what fits their life.
The first step is a short matching questionnaire and scheduling that fits with the therapist’s availability.
How proven approaches translate to online care
Aimee uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help people change how they think and respond to strong emotions. CBT focuses on noticing and testing thoughts that make stress worse, and then trying practical changes that improve mood and behavior. DBT teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication skills for calmer reactions in tense moments.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that match your needs. If something isn’t helping, she will adjust the plan so work in sessions feels productive and relevant to everyday life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which let people fit therapy into busy schedules. Video sessions are useful for deeper, face-to-face conversations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not convenient. Chat or text can be used for brief check-ins, homework support, or when typed communication feels easier. These options broaden access and allow continuity of care when in-person meetings are not possible.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English