About Amy
Amy McGinnis Hogan welcomes clients who are ready to explore patterns that limit their wellbeing and build practical skills to move forward.
Background and approach
With 17 years of clinical experience as an LCSW practicing in Illinois, she frames therapy around helping people gain clearer self-understanding and more effective daily coping strategies. Her work blends psychodynamic exploration with solution-focused techniques, aiming to increase insight into long-standing patterns while teaching concrete tools for managing stress, mood difficulties, relationship concerns, and life transitions.
She draws on methods from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as well as mindfulness practices to support emotion regulation, reduce anxiety and depression symptoms, and address issues such as ADHD, addictions, grief, and intimacy-related struggles. Clients can expect a collaborative, nonjudgmental approach that honors each person’s story while targeting actionable change.
Amy encourages those facing communication problems, feelings of emptiness, guilt or shame, hoarding or impulsivity, and other focused concerns to consider reaching out and beginning a process of reflection, skill building, and greater self-discovery.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients clarify personal values and take committed action toward living in ways that matter to them while learning to notice difficult thoughts without being driven by them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and other mood concerns. Mindfulness-based practices teach present-moment awareness and emotion regulation skills that support stress reduction and greater self-compassion.
Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey, and Amy works collaboratively with clients to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. She blends insight-oriented and skills-based work so the plan evolves from ongoing conversations about what helps most in daily life.
Online therapy offers flexibility and access to the same therapeutic tools through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, allow timely check-ins between meetings, and support continuity of care when in-person visits are not practical.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English