About Amy
Amy Silberman is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with 24 years of experience. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, relationship and parenting concerns. She also supports work around self-esteem, grief, intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping problems, and career changes.
Amy uses a blend of practical conversation and reflective work to help people make small, steady changes. Sessions typically involve listening closely to current struggles and testing new ways of coping.
Background and approach
She draws on problem-solving strategies and attention to personal history to find helpful routes forward. Her practice addresses a wide mix of life challenges, including adoption and foster care, blended family issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness, fertility and fatherhood concerns. Amy also helps people managing compassion fatigue, ADHD symptoms, and transitions such as divorce or aging-related adjustments.
She aims to create a calm, non-judgmental space where clients can name pressures, try different approaches, and set realistic goals. Conversations often include practical tools for sleep, eating, communication, and managing work stress. Amy supports steps toward clearer boundaries and healthier daily routines.
Sessions can be conversational, skill-focused, or more exploratory depending on what a person needs. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that fits their needs.
How Amy's Approaches Work Online
Amy commonly uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in sessions. Client-centered therapy emphasizes empathic listening and focusing on each person’s priorities; it helps when someone needs a steady, understanding space to talk through feelings and choices. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors and tests small changes; it is useful for anxiety, sleep and eating issues, and changing unhelpful routines.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Amy will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and then try methods that match those needs. She adjusts the balance of listening, reflection, and practical coaching based on what proves most helpful over time.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more connection is needed. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or to fit a break at work. Live chat and messaging make it easier to check in between sessions, do brief coaching, or manage short-term concerns without scheduling a full call.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English