About Amy
Amy McGinnis Hogan, LCSW, helps people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to turn. She meets clients with clear, simple conversation aimed at understanding what matters most to them. Her style is straightforward and caring, with a focus on practical steps that can make daily life easier.
She draws on psychodynamic therapy to help people notice patterns from their past that show up today. That work is paired with solution-focused tools that teach concrete coping skills.
Background and approach
Those tools can help with stress, anxiety, mood shifts, ADHD-related struggles, and difficulties at work or in relationships. Amy pays attention to how thoughts, habits, and relationships interact. She helps clients build skills for self-regulation and clearer communication.
That often means setting small, manageable goals and practicing new ways of responding between sessions. Over 17 years as a licensed clinical social worker she has supported people through grief, trauma, addiction concerns, and midlife transitions. She also addresses issues like low self-esteem, isolation, and career dissatisfaction.
Her approach blends understanding with action so clients can try new strategies right away. Sessions are offered in English and are available by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. She works with adults who want a thoughtful mix of insight and hands-on strategies to improve daily functioning and relationships.
Approaches that guide online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions toward them. It helps people who feel stuck by teaching ways to notice thoughts without getting ruled by them and then move toward meaningful goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It offers clear strategies to change unhelpful thinking and build new habits, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and together they decide which methods to try and how to adapt them over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video works well for in-depth conversations and skill practice, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and daily life commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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