Amy Nicolazzo, LPCC

Amy Nicolazzo is an Ohio-licensed professional counselor (LPCC) with 24 years of experience. She focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and manage anxiety. She helps people struggling with addictions, low self-esteem, depression, and the fallout from trauma and loss.

She aims to make the first steps feel less hard. Sessions are a chance to talk through what’s most pressing and to try actions that can change daily life. Amy keeps language plain and focuses on what people can do between sessions to feel steadier.

Her background includes work with mood disorders, panic and social anxiety, and relationship issues. She also addresses patterns like codependency, problems with control, and family of origin concerns. Clients who wrestle with guilt, shame, emptiness, or questions of life purpose often find structure and practical tools in her approach.

Amy draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice thoughts and make values-based changes. She also uses client-centered and dialectical skills to validate feelings while teaching coping strategies. These approaches are adapted to each person’s needs.

People can expect direct, conversational sessions that balance understanding with practical steps. Amy encourages small experiments outside of sessions to test new ways of coping. She works with adults seeking clearer direction, better emotion regulation, and relief from persistent worry or low mood.

How Amy blends structured approaches for online care

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It focuses on testing unhelpful beliefs and building new habits that reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts without letting them dictate choices and then take small steps toward what matters to them.

These methods are used alongside a client-centered stance that prioritizes the person’s perspective. Amy works collaboratively to choose the best fit for each person’s goals and situation. Together they discuss what feels helpful, try an approach, and adjust it based on results and preference.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions that need visual cues. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are convenient for brief updates, tracking progress, or getting support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit consistent therapy into a busy life while trying practical skills and values-based steps.