About Amy
Amy Klein is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in New Jersey with 25 years of experience helping people face stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. She supports those dealing with relationship strain, low self-esteem, parenting challenges, anger, career stress, and major life changes. Amy also works with concerns such as ADHD, bipolar symptoms, intimacy-related issues, and family conflicts.
She aims to create an open space where people can speak honestly about their thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
Sessions are calm and direct, with a focus on listening first and then finding practical next steps. Amy encourages small, doable changes that build confidence over time. Her approach draws on attachment-based and client-centered ideas, using conversation to uncover patterns that affect relationships and self-worth.
She also brings psychodynamic and trauma-informed perspectives to help people understand long-standing reactions and heal from past hurts. Therapy often includes setting short-term goals and trying specific strategies between sessions. Amy helps identify barriers that get in the way of progress and works with each person to remove them.
The pace and focus are shaped by what the client needs most. People can expect straightforward guidance and steady support rather than quick fixes. Amy views the therapeutic process as a partnership where effort from both sides leads to clearer choices and better coping.
She practices in New Jersey and conducts sessions in English.
How her approaches translate to online care
Amy uses attachment-based work to look at how early relationships shape current feelings and connection patterns; this helps when intimacy, abandonment, or family issues keep repeating. Client-centered work means sessions focus on what the person brings in each week and on building the relationship so change feels possible. She also draws on trauma-focused ideas to address past hurts that continue to cause anxiety or avoidance.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Amy will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust those choices as progress is made, keeping the work collaborative and practical.
Online sessions offer flexibility and different ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that matters. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a work break. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to check in between synchronous sessions and to use brief exchanges for quick support or planning.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English