About Amy
Amy Gardiner is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, depression, grief, parenting struggles, and life transitions. She works with adults who are looking for practical ways to feel more confident and cope better with stress. Sessions focus on clear steps clients can try between meetings to make daily life easier.
Her approach blends cognitive strategies, solution-focused work, and mindfulness. That means she helps clients notice unhelpful thoughts, test small changes, and practice simple calming skills.
Background and approach
Conversations are tailored to each person so goals stay realistic and achievable. Amy draws on two decades of clinical experience across many concerns, including mood disorders, trauma and abuse, relationship strain, and caregiving stress. She helps people set priorities, solve immediate problems, and plan for longer-term change.
The work often includes building coping skills for panic, social anxiety, and impulsivity. She also supports people facing major life events such as divorce, loss, aging and end-of-life issues, and career transitions. Amy uses short-term, focused interventions alongside longer problem-solving when needed.
Her style is direct, compassionate, and practical. Sessions are offered from Florida and conducted in English. Amy emphasizes collaboration - clients and therapist set the pace and adjust strategies as progress is made.
Her goal is to help people return to daily life feeling more capable and less overwhelmed.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online therapy
Amy commonly uses cognitive strategies that help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and trouble with self-esteem because it teaches practical thinking tools to try between sessions.She also uses solution-focused techniques that zero in on small, achievable steps. Those methods work well when you need quick wins for problems like stress, parenting challenges, or coping with life changes. Mindfulness practices are added to teach short grounding skills for panic, agitation, and overwhelming emotions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they create a plan and adjust methods as progress is made so the work stays relevant and doable.
Online sessions come in several convenient formats: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, provide quieter alternatives when needed, and allow short focused touches when a full session isn’t required.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English