About Amy
Amy Gardiner is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Florida with 20 years of experience. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, grief, and the everyday strains of parenting and relationships. Amy focuses on practical steps that people can use right away to feel steadier and more capable.
She listens for patterns that keep problems repeating and works with clients to change those patterns. Sessions are aimed at refocusing priorities, building self-confidence, and setting manageable goals.
Background and approach
Amy uses cognitive behavioral, solution-focused, and mindfulness approaches and adapts conversations and plans to each person's needs. Her practice is grounded in respect, sensitivity, and compassion. She supports people through major life transitions, chronic illness, and complicated emotions like shame, anger, or isolation.
For those managing ADHD symptoms, she helps with coping strategies, organization, and impulse control in everyday life. Amy draws on two decades of clinical work to offer straightforward tools and steady guidance. She helps people break large problems into smaller, workable steps and track progress over time.
Many clients find this concrete, step-by-step focus useful when life feels overwhelming. To begin, she encourages a short conversation to identify immediate concerns and priorities. From there she and the client shape a plan focused on realistic change and clearer direction.
Practical approaches for online care and ADHD support
Amy uses straightforward cognitive behavioral techniques that focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and improve daily routines. This approach can help when worries or negative thinking get in the way of functioning.She also applies solution-focused work that narrows in on immediate goals and small, achievable steps. That method fits well for people who want concrete strategies for organization, time management, or impulse control related to ADHD symptoms.
Mindfulness practices are used in short, usable ways to help calm racing thoughts and increase moment-to-moment awareness. Those skills can support emotional regulation and reduce reactivity during stressful moments.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss options, try methods that match a client's goals, and adjust the plan as progress is observed. Clients are invited to give feedback so sessions stay focused and relevant.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face when deeper conversation is needed. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is an issue. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, quick problem-solving, or keeping momentum between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and keep consistent progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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