Amy Conneely
Compassionate social worker for families and parents
- Credentials
- MD, LCSW-C
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Amy
Amy Conneely is a licensed clinical social worker in Maryland with more than 15 years of experience. She trained at Delaware State University, earning both a Bachelor of Social Work and a Master of Social Work. Amy blends practical know-how from medical, hospice, oncology, and home health settings with community and residential program experience.
She also has background in nursing homes, assisted living, and substance abuse treatment centers. Amy focuses on family and parenting matters as part of a broader practice that also addresses stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and addictions.
Background and approach
She works with people who face caregiving strain, chronic illness, or complicated family dynamics. She brings a strengths-based approach and places value on treating people with dignity and respect. Her style centers on building a respectful therapeutic relationship.
Sessions use clear listening and collaborative goal-setting. Amy draws on practical techniques to help people manage symptoms, solve problems, and improve day-to-day functioning. Clinically she uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness, and client-centered methods.
She also includes acceptance and commitment strategies and attachment-informed ideas when helpful. These tools are selected to match each person’s needs and goals. In practice she often helps people reduce stress, handle grief, navigate parenting tensions, manage mood issues like bipolar disorder, and cope with life changes.
Amy emphasizes usable skills and steady support so families can move forward.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Amy uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. CBT gives concrete tools such as thought records and behavior experiments that adapt well to video or phone sessions.She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how family patterns and early relationships affect current connections. This approach helps people understand relationship reactions and practice new ways of relating, which can be explored in conversation during live sessions and through written exercises between meetings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Amy will discuss goals and preferences and help choose methods that match a person’s needs. That choice is collaborative and can be adjusted over time as progress is tracked.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions are helpful when video isn’t possible, and live chat or text messaging can support brief check-ins or skill practice. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to continue work during life transitions.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
Next step
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