About Amy
Amy Spallinger is a licensed clinical social worker in Indiana with 22 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, ADHD, and self-esteem concerns. Amy meets people where they are and aims to create straightforward, practical steps to make daily life more manageable.
She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try small changes that produce real results. Mindfulness techniques are woven into sessions to help with grounding and managing anxiety in the moment.
Background and approach
Narrative ideas help people reframe difficult chapters of their life and find strengths they may have overlooked. Amy often works with issues tied to body image, control struggles, and family of origin patterns. She also supports people facing fertility challenges, first responder stress, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and midlife questions.
Her approach is direct but gentle, focusing on what a person can do next rather than getting stuck in problem lists. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented. Clients can expect clear suggestions, short exercises to try between meetings, and discussion about what did or didn’t help.
Amy believes the person in therapy is the expert on their life, and she partners with them to build solutions that fit real-world routines. She is licensed as an LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker, in Indiana. That credential reflects years of practice and a focus on clinical social work methods.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Amy uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Online CBT sessions often focus on small, practical experiments to try between meetings and clear steps to track progress.She also draws on mindfulness therapy to teach simple grounding skills for moments of anxiety or overwhelm. These short exercises can be practiced during a video call or reinforced with brief text reminders between sessions.
Narrative therapy is used to look at the stories people tell about themselves and consider alternative, more helpful narratives. Working through these ideas online allows for written reflections and chat-based follow-ups that keep the process active between meetings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, rhythm, and comfort with different formats. Adjustments are made along the way based on what is helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging supports quick check-ins or shorter reflection work. These options add flexibility so therapy can fit into busy routines and different days.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English