Aimee Dinschel , LCSW

Aimee Dinschel is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Illinois who helps people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, and major life changes. She works with clients dealing with panic, low self-esteem, social anxiety, and patterns that interfere with relationships. Her style is calm and direct, aimed at making day-to-day living feel more manageable.

In sessions she focuses on building clear coping skills and increasing emotional awareness. She helps people slow down, notice unhelpful patterns, and try new ways of responding. Practical tools and simple exercises are used alongside conversation to make progress between meetings.

Aimee takes a collaborative, client-centered approach. That means she centers each person’s experience and works together with them on goals. Clients shape the pace and focus of work while she guides skill-building and reflection.

Her toolbox includes cognitive behavioral strategies to address thinking and behavior, dialectical skills for emotion regulation, and internal family systems ideas for understanding parts of the self. Motivational interviewing is used when people want help finding the drive to change. These methods are blended to match individual needs.

With 16 years of experience, Aimee draws on practical, down-to-earth methods rather than jargon. She also supports people with women’s issues, caregiving stress, grief, career concerns, and ADHD-related challenges. Therapy aims to help people feel steadier, more confident, and better able to handle life’s demands.

How Aimee blends approaches online

Aimee uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT often includes simple exercises and homework to practice new skills between sessions and is useful for anxiety, depression, and panic.

She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal effectiveness. DBT-style techniques can help when emotions feel overwhelming or when communication repeatedly breaks down.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. She works collaboratively with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they try options, notice what helps, and adjust the plan as needed.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied routines.