Amy Hayes
Compassionate, practical support for life changes
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed in
- Delaware, Idaho
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Amy
Amy Hayes is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 22 years of counseling experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and parenting concerns. She also supports those facing relationship troubles, addictions, trauma and abuse, and challenges with eating, sleeping, anger, career, intimacy, and bipolar disorder.
Amy practices in Delaware and offers sessions in English. Amy draws on work in both large cities and small towns, and she has learned to adapt to many different cultural settings.
Background and approach
She believes counseling should match each person's comfort level, so she shapes sessions to fit what a person needs that week. Amy shares that her motivation comes from having overcome major life challenges herself, which informs her supportive stance. Her practice uses evidence-based tools, including cognitive behavioral methods and humanistic, empowering, task-oriented techniques.
In practice that means looking at daily routines, unhelpful thinking patterns, and concrete steps a person can try between sessions. Sometimes the focus is short-term problem solving; other times the work is about longer trauma or loss. Amy aims to help people notice what is going on inside and around them so change can begin.
She works with clients to build new coping skills, open possibilities for growth, and move toward healthier patterns. Her tone is encouraging and practical, inviting people to take the first step. For parents and caregivers seeking guidance around family and parenting topics, Amy offers straightforward, experience-informed support and practical strategies to try at home.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Many people find cognitive behavioral techniques helpful for changing unhelpful thinking and small daily habits. This approach breaks problems into manageable steps and offers concrete tools for anxiety, depression, and stress. Humanistic methods focus on listening and understanding each person’s experience so they feel heard and can access their own strengths. Task-oriented work emphasizes clear, realistic goals and practical activities to try between sessions to make steady progress.Finding the right mix of these approaches is something the therapist does together with the person. Amy will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. That helps shape a plan that feels useful and workable for each person’s situation.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules and to continue work from home or on the go. They also allow for flexible follow-up between meetings and different ways to communicate depending on what feels most comfortable.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Delaware, Idaho
- Languages
- English
Next step
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