About Amy
Amy Appino is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience in Indiana. She helps people facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, mood concerns like depression and bipolar, and worries about anxiety and stress. She also supports those dealing with ADHD, addictions, grief, trauma and abuse, and intimacy or eating-related concerns.
She uses a calm, practical style in sessions. Amy aims to make it easy to talk about hard things.
Background and approach
She focuses on what is happening now in your life and on steps you can try between meetings. Amy blends several therapeutic methods to meet each person's needs. She draws on somatic approaches to help people notice how feelings show up in the body.
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to clarify values and change unhelpful thoughts and patterns. Her work includes support for family and communication problems, divorce and separation, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and end-of-life concerns. She also addresses substance use, hoarding, HIV/AIDS related concerns, and blended family issues.
Sessions are offered in English and take place with attention to each person’s pace. Amy aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space so people feel heard. She invites clients to take small, workable steps toward more stable routines, clearer boundaries, and improved connection with others.
Her approach is collaborative and focused on real-life changes.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Somatic work helps people notice how thoughts and emotions show up in the body. It uses gentle awareness of breath, posture, and sensation to reduce physical tension related to anxiety, trauma, or chronic stress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on what matters most to you. It combines acceptance of difficult feelings with small, values-driven actions to move life in a meaningful direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and patterns and teaches practical skills to change them and improve mood and functioning.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels comfortable. Together they choose which tools to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, while phone sessions remove the need for video. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between meetings or use shorter, more frequent contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work through life changes.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English