About Amy
Amy Conneely is a licensed clinical social worker in Maryland with more than 15 years of experience. She holds an MD and a Master of Social Work and has worked in hospitals, hospice, oncology, home health, nursing homes, assisted living, substance abuse centers, and residential programs. Amy focuses on practical help for everyday struggles and listens first to understand each person's situation.
Her style is warm and straightforward. She treats people with respect and without judgment.
How Amy works
Sessions aim to build on strengths and fit each person's pace and needs rather than forcing a single method. Amy mixes several approaches to meet real problems. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to tackle unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Mindfulness and dialectical skills help people manage strong emotions and stay grounded. Attachment-informed work helps when relationships and trust are central concerns. She has particular experience addressing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, caregiver fatigue, parenting issues, relationship and family strain, anger, self-esteem, bipolar concerns, and ADHD.
Amy also supports people facing chronic illness, cancer, aging issues, adoption and foster care matters, and blended family challenges. In sessions she draws on motivational interviewing and solution-focused steps to set clear, doable goals. Conversations are practical and goal-oriented, with tools to use between sessions.
The aim is steady progress that fits each person's life and responsibilities.
Amy lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Amy works with
The areas below are the ones Amy selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- 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)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | MD, LCSW-C |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maryland |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Amy commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions toward them, which can help with anxiety, stress, and major life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns with practical exercises and homework to shift day-to-day reactions.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to understand how early relationship patterns affect current connections and trust. That approach is helpful when relationship issues, attachment worries, or communication problems are part of the concern. Together these methods give a mix of skills work, values exploration, and relational insight.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick and adjust methods based on goals, preferences, and what feels effective in early sessions. Clients shape the plan and provide feedback so techniques can be changed as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth or movement is limited, live chat fits brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, medical appointments, and other responsibilities.
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