Ammie Helling , LPC

Ammie Helling is a Licensed Professional Counselor with more than 30 years of experience working with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and struggles with self-esteem. She practices from Michigan and focuses on helping clients manage attention and focus concerns often associated with ADHD. Ammie aims to create straightforward, practical conversations that help people move forward.

She listens for what matters most to each person and builds on strengths they already have. Sessions tend to be collaborative and down-to-earth, with clear steps to try between meetings. Ammie emphasizes realistic goals and gentle accountability rather than lengthy theory talks.

Her work also addresses the overlap between emotional pain and long-term health conditions. That includes chronic pain, illness, and disability where mood and daily functioning can be affected. She helps people develop coping routines, pacing strategies, and ways to communicate their needs.

People who are dealing with life transitions such as divorce, midlife changes, or grief can expect practical tools for navigating emotions and decisions. Ammie offers help with forgiveness, guilt, shame, and rebuilding self-love after loss or upheaval.

Communication problems and social anxiety are common topics in her sessions. She teaches simple skills for clearer conversations, managing panic, and reducing avoidance. The aim is to increase confidence in everyday interactions and restore a sense of control.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Many clients benefit from evidence-based techniques that focus on skills and behavior change. One common approach emphasizes teaching practical coping skills for anxiety and panic, such as breath work, grounding techniques, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations to reduce avoidance and increase confidence.

Another helpful method focuses on attention and organization strategies for people with ADHD-related struggles. This includes simple routines, task breakdowns, memory aids, and time-management tools to improve focus and daily functioning.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs, then adjust based on what helps. Clients work together with the therapist to decide which techniques to keep, adapt, or drop as progress is made.

Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people meet face-to-face without travel, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can allow quick check-ins during a busy day, and text messaging supports short updates or reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a routine and keep momentum between appointments.