Amy Conneely

Amy Conneely is a licensed clinical social worker in Maryland with more than 15 years of experience. She has worked across hospitals, hospice and oncology settings, home health, nursing homes, assisted living, substance use treatment, and residential programs for adults. Amy focuses on practical help for common struggles like depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, and caregiver fatigue.

Her style centers on a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship. She emphasizes treating people with dignity and building a trusting connection before moving to strategies. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs.

Amy uses clear, action-focused tools drawn from cognitive behavioral methods and dialectical behavior techniques. She blends these with mindfulness and client-centered approaches to teach coping skills and build routine habits that reduce distress. Motivational interviewing is used when people want help making changes but feel stuck.

She often supports people dealing with family conflict, parenting strain, chronic illness or caregiving stress, and substance-related problems. Amy also works with concerns such as anger, self-esteem, ADHD, and complex grief after a loss.

People who prefer practical skill-building alongside empathic listening tend to find her approach helpful. She aims to make sessions straightforward and useful, with steps that people can try between meetings.

How Amy’s approaches translate to online work

Amy draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and many everyday problems by giving clear steps people can practice between sessions.

She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on noticing difficult feelings without fighting them and choosing actions that match personal values. ACT can help with grief, chronic stress, and situations that don't fully resolve but can be lived with more purpose.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Amy will work together with each person to see which methods fit their goals and preferences. This may mean trying different techniques and adjusting the plan over time so sessions feel relevant and helpful.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session formats offered before booking since the profile does not list specific options. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, save commuting time, and allow shorter check-ins when that better fits a schedule. Therapists can also guide practice exercises and mindfulness work between meetings to reinforce changes.