About Amy
Amy White is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with ten years of experience in social work and over four years in personal clinical practice. She focuses on practical, goal-oriented support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, addiction concerns, and other life challenges. Amy works respectfully and without judgement to meet each person where they are.
She tailors conversations and plans to fit what an individual needs right now.
Background and approach
Sessions often include learning new coping skills, reshaping unhelpful thoughts, and practicing ways to manage strong emotions. Amy uses clear, direct strategies so people can start feeling better between sessions. Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas to understand relationship patterns and on client-centered work to keep sessions focused on the person’s priorities.
Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to identify and change thinking that fuels anxiety or depression. Dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness skills may be added to help regulate emotions and build tolerance for difficult moments.
Amy has experience addressing a wide range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy issues, ADHD, caregiver stress, body image, and sexual diversity topics such as kink and BDSM. She also helps people coping with chronic illness, blended family stress, communication problems, and major life transitions. People who choose Amy can expect a collaborative, respectful partnership.
She aims to provide practical tools and steady support so clients can move toward clearer goals and improved day-to-day functioning.
Approaches that translate to online sessions
Amy draws on attachment-based work to look at how past relationship patterns affect current connections. This helps when trust, abandonment, or communication problems show up in relationships. Client-centered therapy keeps the session focused on each person’s goals and priorities, so conversations stay relevant and respectful. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, offers clear steps to change unhelpful thoughts and reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression.Choosing the right approach is something to do together. Amy will listen to what matters most and suggest methods that match your goals and preferences. Over the first few meetings she will check in and adjust the plan so the work feels useful and manageable.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer writing to speaking or need flexible check-ins during the week. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel, and let licensed professionals deliver consistent care across locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas
- Languages
- English