About Amy
Amy Wilder is a licensed clinical social worker in Illinois with three decades of experience. She helps people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and parenting concerns. Amy speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps that make daily life easier for clients.
She uses straightforward conversation to learn what a person wants to change. Amy combines client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness approaches. Sessions often include small skills to try between meetings and simple ways to shift unhelpful thinking.
Background and approach
Her work also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns from the past. When helpful, she uses solution-focused strategies to set clear goals and track progress. This mix helps people handle life transitions, improve intimacy, and rebuild self-esteem.
Amy has a long history helping people facing family problems, blended family issues, caregiving stress, and aging concerns. She also supports people dealing with body image, eating concerns, fertility questions, and recovery from separation or domestic violence. In online sessions she offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their day.
Her practice aims to be warm and practical, helping clients find workable ways forward one step at a time.
How Amy’s Approaches Work Online
Amy often uses client-centered therapy which means she listens carefully and follows what matters most to the client. This approach helps people feel heard and helps identify practical goals for change. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, is another common tool she uses; it focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thoughts and building small behavior changes that reduce anxiety and improve mood.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Amy will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then suggest techniques that fit those needs. Together they adjust the plan over time based on what is working and what is not, so therapy stays practical and goal-focused.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful when visual cues help the conversation, while phone calls work well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging let people send updates or ask quick questions between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to use approaches like CBT and mindfulness in everyday moments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English