Amy Hayes, LCSW

Amy Hayes is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with more than two decades of counseling experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction concerns, and major life changes. Her straightforward, supportive style aims to make beginning therapy less intimidating for someone who is worried or unsure.

Amy draws on work across large cities and small towns, which exposed her to many cultures and life situations. She adapts the way she works to match each person’s needs and comfort level. Sessions mix practical skills with space to talk through painful experiences and confusing transitions.

Her approach includes cognitive behavioral ideas that look at how thoughts affect behavior, humanistic perspectives that focus on your strengths, and task-oriented methods to set small, doable steps. These methods are used to address everyday struggles like sleep or eating problems and longer-term issues such as trauma or the death of a loved one.

Amy emphasizes partnership in therapy. She explains options, helps set realistic goals, and focuses on skills you can use outside of sessions. Progress often begins with deciding on a small first step and practicing it until it fits into daily life.

People come to her for a range of concerns including relationship strain, parenting stress, bipolar mood challenges, anger or career questions. She welcomes honest conversation and aims to support people as they find ways to cope and move forward.