Amy Whitaker, LCSW
Licensed in Kentucky · 20 years in practice
Amy Whitaker is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with twenty years of experience helping adults navigate major life changes.
License and registration
- LCSW, Kentucky
- 3288 · expires February 2027
- LCSW, Florida
- SW20632 · expires March 2027
- NPI
- 1275773426 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 20
- Languages
- English
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About Amy
Amy Whitaker is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with twenty years of experience helping adults navigate major life changes. She focuses on common concerns such as stress, anxiety, relationships, grief, and career strain. Amy offers straightforward support so people can make decisions they feel confident about.
She uses a client-centered approach to build trust and understand each person's priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps when unhelpful thoughts and reactions get in the way of daily life.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing supports people who want to make changes but feel stuck. Amy often helps with family and relationship struggles, communication problems, and parenting stresses in individual sessions. She also works with issues like infertility, caregiving burden, end-of-life concerns, and the emotional impact of a cancer diagnosis.
Her practice includes support for people coping with anger, low self-esteem, and feelings of isolation. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented. Amy listens first, then suggests small, doable steps clients can try between meetings.
She checks in on what is and isn't working so the plan can be adjusted. Clients describe wanting clear tools and calm conversation when they meet with her. She combines problem-solving skills with a steady, accepting presence.
Amy practices from Kentucky and provides services by phone, video, live chat, or text messaging.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Amy lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Coping with life changes
- LGBT
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Amy names
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
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Online support
Approach and online care that fits your life
Amy uses Client-Centered Therapy to listen closely and build an understanding of what matters most to each person. This approach focuses on the client's goals and priorities and helps shape sessions around their needs.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. CBT offers practical techniques to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns one step at a time.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Amy will talk with the client about goals and try methods that match those aims, adjusting plans as progress is tracked. The focus is on what the client wants to change and what feels doable.
Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can suit quick check-ins or short coaching-style support. These options help people fit therapy around work, caregiving, or busy schedules, while keeping the focus on steady progress and practical steps.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does she address?
Amy helps with stress, anxiety, grief, relationship and family difficulties, career challenges, and self-esteem concerns. She also supports people facing caregiving strain, fertility and cancer-related issues, and end-of-life matters.
What is her therapy style like?
She uses a client-centered style that prioritizes what matters to each person. Practical tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and motivational interviewing are used when helpful.
How much experience does she have?
Amy has practiced for 20 years, working with adults on life transitions, relationship conflict, grief, anxiety, and work-related stress.
What are her credentials and location?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in Florida and Kentucky and practices out of Kentucky.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and routines.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling according to her availability.
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