About Amy
Amy Haake helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, burnout, relationship strain, substance use, or big life changes. She welcomes conversations about mood problems, attention concerns, identity questions, parenting struggles, career pressure, and trauma. Amy holds an OH LPCC, which is Ohio Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, and she brings nine years of clinical experience to her practice.
Amy emphasizes emotional acceptance and practical ways to manage day-to-day stress. She aims to make sessions feel like a calm conversation while also teaching skills to reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
Many clients come when work stress bleeds into home life, and she focuses on life-work balance and healthy outlets for energy. Her style is laid back and direct. Amy avoids stigmatizing labels and treats people with respect and care.
She often combines several therapy approaches to match what an individual needs in the moment. Sessions typically include skill practice, problem-solving, and moments of reflection. Amy helps people notice their feelings, try new behaviors, and track what works.
She also addresses communication problems, control issues, guilt and shame, and impulsivity when those come up. People who choose Amy usually want to build coping tools, sort through priorities, and reduce emotional reactivity. Her aim is to help clients move from survival to feeling more capable and satisfied in daily life.
She encourages small, steady changes that add up over time.
Approaches for emotional acceptance and practical change
Amy commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients manage feelings and change unhelpful patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and it helps people act in line with their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts influence behavior and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, panic attacks, and low mood.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Amy will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which skills and strategies to try and adjust the plan over time based on what is working.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video sessions let people work face-to-face from a convenient location. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging supports quick check-ins, skill reminders, and short coaching-style exchanges between sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English