About Amy
Amy Whitaker is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who has practiced since 2003. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, grief, career issues, and life changes. Amy offers straightforward support and practical conversation to help people make choices they can stand behind.
She centers sessions on clear listening and honest feedback. Clients can expect a calm space to talk through what feels stuck and to try new ways of seeing a problem.
Background and approach
Amy emphasizes perspective - how you view a situation shapes how you respond to it. Her approach blends client-centered work with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques. That mix lets sessions shift between understanding what matters to you and practicing small, doable changes.
She uses short-term strategies when they fit, and deeper conversation when that is needed. Amy brings two decades of clinical experience to questions about infertility, caregiving stress, aging and geriatric issues, cancer, hospice and end-of-life matters, and midlife or career transitions. She also addresses concerns such as anger, self-esteem, money worries, and compassion fatigue.
Her background supports practical guidance for real-life problems. Sessions are offered in English and take place online through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Amy is licensed in Florida as FL LCSW SW20632 and in Kentucky as KY LCSW 3288.
She practices from Kentucky and focuses on helping people find clearer choices and steadier footing through change.
How Amy’s approaches work in online sessions
Amy uses client-centered work to focus on what matters most to each person. That means she listens first, follows the client’s lead, and helps name priorities. This approach helps with relationship questions, grief, and figuring out responses to life changes.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT offers simple exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. That method often helps with anxiety, stress, and low mood by giving practical steps to change daily patterns.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Amy will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then recommend ways of working that fit. Sessions may mix listening, coaching, and short skills practice based on what the client needs at the time.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video works well for deeper conversation and reading nonverbal cues, while phone calls can be a good option when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging suit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or people who prefer typing over speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky, Florida
- Languages
- English