About Amy
Amy Hayes is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 22 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling stuck by offering steady support and practical steps forward. Her approach is warm and direct, aimed at making daily life feel more manageable again.
Amy works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and challenges with addiction. She also assists those dealing with relationship strain, intimacy issues, self-esteem, sleep and eating struggles, parenting questions, anger, career decisions, and bipolar concerns.
Background and approach
Many who come to her are coping with life transitions or blended family dynamics. Her background includes clinical work in both larger cities and smaller towns across diverse cultural settings. That variety informs how she adapts sessions to match each person’s situation and values.
Amy emphasizes practical tools that can be used between appointments as well as moments to reflect on longer patterns. In sessions she mixes cognitive-behavioral ideas with humanistic, task-oriented, and empowering ways of working. This can mean identifying unhelpful habits, trying small experiments, and building new skills step by step.
Amy believes change often begins with one clear next step. She draws on personal experience of overcoming challenges to stay motivated in this work. Her aim is to help people find strength, regain momentum, and learn new ways to manage life’s demands.
If someone is ready to make a change, she offers steady guidance to begin that process.
How Amy blends approaches for online care
Amy commonly draws on cognitive-behavioral ideas, which focus on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. This approach is useful for anxiety, low mood, sleep problems, and many daily challenges because it gives clear steps to try.She also uses humanistic and empowering methods that center the person’s values and strengths. These approaches help when clients want to explore meaning, rebuild confidence, or find motivation after loss or big life changes.
Choosing the right way of working is a shared process. Amy will talk through goals, try strategies, and adjust the plan as needs and preferences become clearer. The focus is on practical progress and building skills that feel useful in everyday life.
Online sessions offer flexibility for people with busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a deeper interaction is wanted. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, quick skill reminders, or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Delaware, Idaho
- Languages
- English