About Amy
Amy Heim is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with 15 years of experience. She focuses on practical steps people can take to ease stress and anxiety and to rebuild confidence. Amy aims to make the first step feel manageable and supportive.
She uses clear, straightforward conversation to help people sort through relationship concerns, depression, or big life changes. Sessions often look at everyday habits and choices that get in the way of feeling better.
How Amy works
Amy encourages small experiments and goals that fit into real life. Amy draws on approaches such as acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioral methods, and attachment-based ideas to guide the work. She helps people notice patterns, shift unhelpful thinking, and strengthen how they relate to others.
Mindfulness and narrative techniques are also used to ground sessions and reshape personal stories. Clients bring many concerns including grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related struggles, eating and body image issues, parenting and fatherhood questions, career strain, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Amy also helps with specific problems like abandonment, blended family dynamics, communication problems, and caregiver stress.
Sessions are practical and collaborative. Amy listens, offers tools you can try between meetings, and adjusts strategies when needed. The goal is clearer direction and better coping skills for everyday life.
Amy lists 6 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW-R |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Amy often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and commit to small actions that match what matters most. ACT is practical for managing anxiety, depression, and life changes by shifting how someone responds to difficult thoughts and feelings.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT is useful for stress, anxiety, low mood, and many everyday problems because it breaks concerns into doable steps and measurable goals.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Amy will explore your goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then suggest methods to try. She adjusts the plan based on what feels most helpful and practical for your life.
Online therapy offers several flexible ways to connect. Video calls let you work face to face; phone sessions can be lower bandwidth or easier when a quick check-in is needed; live chat and text-based messaging allow short exchanges and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or busy days while still using evidence-informed approaches.
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A practical next step
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