About Amy
Amy Appino is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with two decades of experience helping people navigate relationship problems, parenting stress, anxiety, depression, and addictions. She also supports those facing ADHD, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy concerns, eating issues, and major life changes. Amy practices in Indiana and conducts sessions in English.
Her approach is straightforward and practical. Amy aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about what matters most to them.
Background and approach
She listens closely to day-to-day struggles and helps identify small, useful steps that can make life more manageable. In sessions she uses tools from cognitive behavioral work to name unhelpful thinking patterns. She also draws on acceptance and mindfulness strategies to help people live with difficult feelings without getting stuck.
For relationship and attachment concerns she brings in emotional-focused ideas to help people understand patterns and reconnect with others. Amy combines skills from different approaches to fit each person’s needs. She helps people set realistic goals and practices skills between sessions.
Therapy is framed as a collaborative process where the client’s values guide the work. Her broad practice includes additional focuses such as chronic illness and caregiving stress, blended family issues, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and substance-related challenges. Amy’s aim is to help people find clearer ways forward, one step at a time.
Evidence-informed approaches for online care
Amy commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in online sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, which can ease symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on what matters to the person and teaches skills to accept difficult feelings while taking committed action toward those values.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amy will discuss different methods with each person and choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and preferences. The process is collaborative, with the client guiding priorities and Amy suggesting practical exercises to try between meetings.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins, quick skill practice, and flexible communication during the week. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and to use strategies where they matter in daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English