About Amy
Amy Morantes is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in Florida. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. Amy listens first, then helps set clear, manageable goals for change.
She uses an approachable, strengths-based style that centers the person’s priorities. Sessions tend to be practical and focused. Amy draws on techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy to help people test small changes and build new habits.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are also part of her work when clients want tools to manage strong emotions and reduce reactivity. Motivational Interviewing helps when someone is uncertain about change or struggling with addiction or motivation. Over a decade of experience has brought work with many concerns, including relationship strain, parenting challenges, caregiving stress, trauma and abuse, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue.
Amy pays attention to how family history and life context affect what a person is facing now. Her style is respectful and direct. She helps people identify what matters to them, break goals into small steps, and track progress.
The aim is steady, sustainable improvement rather than quick fixes.
How Amy’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s goals and priorities. The therapist listens closely and follows what matters most to the client, helping them find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep someone stuck and uses practical exercises to change patterns and reduce symptoms. Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Amy will collaborate with clients to decide which methods fit their needs and preferences. That may mean trying a mix of goal-setting, mindfulness exercises, and behavior-change tasks to see what helps most. Online formats make this flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a check-in is needed on the go. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, tracking progress, or shorter coaching-style exchanges between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep steady momentum toward their goals.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English