Amy Doliver, LCSW-R

Amy Doliver is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, family conflict, trauma, and depression. She brings a direct and compassionate style to sessions and focuses on practical steps people can use between meetings. Amy works from New York and has two decades of experience in mental health care.

Over 20 years Amy has supported people through addiction, grief, parenting challenges, and changes such as divorce or caregiving responsibilities. She also addresses concerns like body image, eating issues, chronic pain and illness, and struggles with intimacy or commitment. Her experience includes helping people facing abandonment, attachment, blended family issues, and the effects of natural or human-caused disaster.

Amy uses straightforward, skills-based approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. She also draws on solution-focused and trauma-focused methods to tailor the work to each person. Sessions tend to focus on identifying patterns, building coping skills, and setting small goals that add up to change.

People working with Amy can expect a collaborative process. She helps clients clarify what they want to change, try practical strategies, and track progress over time. Many clients come for help with career strain, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related challenges, or low self-esteem.

Her credential is LCSW-R, which indicates clinical social work licensure in New York. Amy accepts English-speaking and international clients and aims to match treatment plans to each person’s life and needs.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Amy commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and trauma-focused therapy. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions, and helps people try small experiments to change unhelpful patterns. Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on processing past hurts and building safety and coping skills for day-to-day life. These approaches can help with anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and recovery from difficult events.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, test methods, and adjust the plan over time. Clients and the therapist decide together which strategies fit best for the issues and pace each person prefers.

Confirm the available online session options before booking because specific formats were not listed in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, or remove the need to be on camera for every meeting. Many people find these practical benefits helpful while they work on skills, communication, and coping strategies with a licensed professional.