Recovery Our Way
INDIVIDUAL & COUPLES THERAPY FOR ANXIETY, TRAUMA, AND RELATIONSHIP DIFFICULTIES
Recovery Our Way
INDIVIDUAL & COUPLES THERAPY FOR ANXIETY, TRAUMA, AND RELATIONSHIP DIFFICULTIESSpecializing in OCD, ADHD, and disordered eating. Together we can look beyond the symptoms to understand what's keeping you stuck.
Amy SMith MSW, LISW-S
Athens & Columbus, Ohio • Virtual across OhioEMDR
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Emotionally Immature Parents & Attachment
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Family of Origin Problems
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Food & Body Issues
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Infidelity
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Nervous System Reset
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Neurodivergence
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EMDR • Emotionally Immature Parents & Attachment • Family of Origin Problems • Food & Body Issues • Infidelity • Nervous System Reset • Neurodivergence •
What is going on in your life that keeps leaving you feeling like you have no other choice but to overeat, overwork, overthink, over-parent, overspend, or keep reaching for habits that give relief in the moment?
There's a story behind the behavior..
Start here
Where are you right now?
You don’t have to know what kind of therapy or coaching you need.
It’s my job to figure it out with you.
Ways we can work together
Individual therapy
When anxiety, OCD, relationship patterns, or burnout leave you feeling overwhelmed, therapy offers space to explore what's beneath it all and find your way back to yourself.
Couples therapy
Strengthen your connection, communicate your feelings and needs, and create a relationship that feels more fulfilling for both of you.
EMDR therapy
For women who have done the reading, podcasting, talking and are ready to move deeper into healing old wounds still getting triggered today.
Coaching
For women who are stuck between her deepest desires and societal expectations. Or she feels confused by continued overeating, spending, working, drinking, etc even in the face of negative consequences.
Consultation
For Ohio LSWs needing clinical supervision to be independently licensed, or therapists thinking about going into private practice.
Together, we can explore how to get you out of fight, flight, or freeze. Then, make connections between your past and present. We can begin to make sense of the patterns showing up. What to do with the triggers. We can build new skills that work for you.
We can explore why you overthink conversations, feel responsible for everyone else's feelings, struggle to let go of guilt, and why it's so hard to change things we promised ourselves we would work on.
Sometimes the things we're most frustrated with about ourselves began as ways of coping, connecting, or getting through difficult experiences.
If you were in my therapy office right now I would want to know several things:
→ What led up to you reaching out to me?
→ What is your biggest concern?
→ What's bothering you the most right now?
→ What do you notice is on your thoughts in a typical day?
→ Do you have some ideas to what's at the root of your struggles?
You don’t have to know. It helps me to know your perception of the struggle. Some people say....I think I have ADHD, or things are building up and I don't want to snap. My thoughts or habits scare me sometimes, or my home or work life is out of control.
Sometimes people come to me saying it's not that deep - I just need someone to process some things with me.
I would want to know when did you first start to notice these issues? What have you already tried to help yourself?
If this weren't a problem anymore, what would be different? I help you visualize solutions.
EMDR
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Emotionally Immature Parents & Attachment
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Food & Body Issues
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Infidelity
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Family of Origin Problems
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Nervous System Reset
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Neurodivergence
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EMDR • Emotionally Immature Parents & Attachment • Food & Body Issues • Infidelity • Family of Origin Problems • Nervous System Reset • Neurodivergence •
Hi, I’m Amy.
I've always been fascinated by people, and why capable, successful women keep repeating patterns they want to change.
I'm warm, collaborative, and practical; I ask questions and help you connect the dots.
How it works
1 | Reach out to Amy
Phone, email or send me a message via my contact form, and I’ll do my best to respond in 24 hours. If you’re ready to schedule an appointment then you can book it here.
2 | Intake Paperwork
Before our first session, I’ll send you some intake paperwork through a secure client portal. The paperwork covers basic demographic information, consent forms, practice policies, and questions that help me understand what brings you to therapy.
3 | Our First Session
Our first session is a chance for us to get to know one another. I’ll ask questions about what is bringing you to therapy, what has been happening in your life, what you’ve already tried, and what you’d like to be different, and more.
NOTE: the following reviews were left voluntarily on a therapy platform and were not requested by Amy. The relationship between a therapist and client is a unique and deeply personal one, which is why asking clients for reviews is often not appropriate. While reviews can offer helpful insights, the therapeutic relationship is complex and one of a kind, and a review can never fully capture it.
There's a reason why you do what you do, and understanding your patterns and triggers can change the relationship you have with yourself. I often work with people who have been in survival mode for a long time and just don't know where to begin or even know what they need. Even how and where they feel creativity and joy.
My mission is to create therapy that feels grounded enough to feel safe, deep enough to matter, flexible enough to honor the individual, and creative enough to discover new ways forward.
We all have different parts and we want the best parts of us to show up for our relationships in life.
Clients and I both feel and see that when it comes out in sessions and it feels inspiring and motivating to move forward to the next small step and realistic goal.
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