Amy Klein, LMSW, LICSW

Amy Klein is a licensed social worker with 14 years of clinical experience. She uses mindfulness, cognitive-behavioral ideas, and person-centered listening to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and life transitions. Amy practices in Michigan and brings a calm, down-to-earth presence to sessions.

Her background includes an MSW from Western Michigan University and years of front-line social work beginning right after high school. She has provided in-home family therapy, worked with youth-at-risk in the Peace Corps, and practiced in settings that include a Native tribe, a medium-security prison, schools, and a medical clinic. These experiences shaped her practical, hands-on approach.

Amy combines evidence-based tools with mindfulness, movement, and storytelling. She teaches yoga and is a reiki master, and she often integrates breathwork, gentle body awareness, and creative techniques when helpful. Sessions emphasize simple skills people can use between visits to manage mood and stress.

People come to her for help with grief, caregiver strain, aging and geriatric issues, parenting stress, anger, intimacy concerns, and coping after trauma. She also addresses issues such as ADHD, body image, and career strain. Her work tends to be collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.

Amy says she tries to hold emotional space and offer unconditional positive regard. She blends scientific ideas and older wisdom to help people reconnect with an inner compass and choose actions that match their values.

How her approaches translate to online work

Amy often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in her work. ACT focuses on clarifying values and committing to small actions that match what matters to you, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Client-centered work emphasizes listening, empathy, and building a trusting relationship so people feel heard and can explore what matters most.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques when helpful to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and practice new behaviors. CBT tools are practical and goal oriented, useful for managing symptoms of anxiety, depression, and mood shifts. Together these approaches aim to combine skill building with a warm, accepting therapeutic relationship.

Finding the right mix is a shared process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit goals, needs, and preferences. Sessions can be adjusted over time as progress and circumstances change.

Session format details are not specified here, so confirm current online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, reduce travel time, allow shorter or more frequent check-ins when useful, and let people work from a quieter place or a location that suits their schedule.