Amy Schold , LCSW

Amy Schold is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Louisiana who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, addiction, and women's issues. She brings 20 years of experience to conversations about mood, impulsivity, and day-to-day coping. Her style is down-to-earth and practical.

She focuses on simple, usable skills clients can try between sessions. That can mean practicing new thinking patterns, learning ways to manage intense emotions, or building small habits that reduce stress. Amy uses methods meant to be straightforward and doable.

Amy starts by listening to what matters most to each person. She works from a client-centered stance and asks questions that help people set clear, realistic goals. From there she mixes techniques to match the problem - for example skills to handle overwhelming feelings or ideas to challenge unhelpful thinking.

Practical tools include emotion regulation strategies, mindful breathing and short behavioral experiments. She also uses motivational interviewing techniques to help people shift habits related to addictions or difficult life changes. Sessions are conversational and goal focused.

Over two decades Amy has supported people through divorce and separation, family problems, panic, OCD symptoms, and process addictions such as gambling or problematic exercise and pornography. She also addresses parenting strain, career stress, and struggles tied to identity and self worth.

People connect with her for care that is steady and straightforward. Her approach centers on building skills, increasing self-understanding, and finding manageable steps forward.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Amy commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in online work. CBT helps people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can ease symptoms of anxiety, depression, and panic. DBT focuses on skills for managing intense emotions, reducing impulsivity, and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can be helpful for mood swings and relationship stress.

She also draws on a client-centered approach that emphasizes listening and prioritizing each person's goals. Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process; the therapist will work with the client to pick approaches that fit their needs, goals, and preferences rather than imposing a single method.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit easily into a work break. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, quick skill practice, or people who prefer writing over talking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and life changes while trying different techniques together.