Amy Haake, LPCC

Amy Haake is an Ohio-based licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She focuses on practical ways to manage overwhelming feelings so daily life becomes easier to handle. Amy emphasizes emotional acceptance and building skills to reduce burnout and increase satisfaction across work and home life.

She often works with people facing career strain that spills into other areas of life. Sessions aim to find healthier outlets and routines that let clients focus their energy more efficiently. Amy uses straightforward strategies to address mood changes, panic, and substance use concerns alongside relationship and parenting pressures.

Amy’s counseling style is relaxed and conversational. She aims to make therapy feel like a real dialogue while also teaching new coping skills. Respect, sensitivity, and compassion guide her interactions, and she avoids stigmatizing labels.

Her approach blends several methods, including cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, and emotion-focused work. Those approaches inform practical exercises and small behavior changes between sessions. Over her nine years of practice she has supported people dealing with trauma, grief, anger, and issues with self-esteem.

Clients can expect clear goals, collaborative problem solving, and attention to daily routines that affect mood and functioning. Amy encourages clients to notice how emotions can become sources of strength rather than obstacles. She welcomes questions about how therapy might fit into each person’s life.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Amy uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavior changes. CBT often focuses on practical tasks between sessions, such as tracking thoughts or testing new actions, which work well over video or messaging.

She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to teach people how to accept hard feelings while moving toward meaningful goals. ACT practices like mindfulness and values-based action can be taught in brief exercises and practiced between contacts.

Finding the right approach is a team effort. Amy will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and daily routine to decide which methods to emphasize. She adapts the plan over time based on what helps most.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions and skill teaching, phone calls can fit a work break or lower bandwidth, and messaging allows short check-ins or written exercises. These options make it easier to keep regular contact and practice skills in real life while fitting therapy into a busy schedule.