About Aimee
Aimee Dinschel is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Illinois who works with people coping with anxiety, depression, trauma, and major life changes.
Background and approach
She draws on sixteen years of clinical experience to help clients untangle intense emotions, manage panic and sleeping difficulties, and address concerns such as low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and substance-related challenges. Her practice also attends to relationship and family dynamics, grief, ADHD, and identity-related matters including LGBT issues.
Her style emphasizes collaboration and growing self-understanding; she guides clients to notice recurring patterns like people-pleasing or avoidance and to develop practical skills for emotion regulation and communication. Aimee integrates evidence-based strategies to build resilience, reduce symptoms, and support people navigating career transitions, parenting stress, or caregiving burdens.
Treatment goals often include strengthening coping strategies, improving interpersonal effectiveness, and restoring a greater sense of balance and purpose. Clients can expect a supportive, respectful approach that honors individual experience while offering concrete tools for change.
Aimee combines clinical training with lived clinical experience to help people move from feeling stuck to making sustainable shifts in daily life.
How therapeutic approaches guide online care
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and collaboration, creating space for the client to lead and for the therapist to reflect and support personal priorities; this approach is helpful for exploring identity, self-esteem, and interpersonal patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through structured techniques, which can be especially useful for anxiety, panic, sleep problems, and depressive symptoms. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness that support people managing intense emotions and relationship challenges.Finding the right method is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each client to assess needs, try approaches, and adjust techniques over time so therapy aligns with the client's goals and preferences rather than sticking rigidly to one model.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These options let clients access licensed professionals from home or while traveling, use written check-ins between sessions, or choose a conversation mode that fits their day-to-day life. Overall, remote sessions aim to make consistent care more accessible while preserving the therapeutic focus on skills, insight, and practical change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English