Aimee Paddock, LCSW

Aimee Paddock is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addiction, and life transitions. She makes space for everyday problems and bigger life changes. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at helping someone feel steadier and more able to cope.

Aimee draws on more than two decades of work in mental health and addictions counseling, with many years seeing clients while fully licensed. She uses clear goals and plans so sessions focus on what matters to each person. She also teaches breathing, relaxation, mindfulness, and basic coping skills to use between visits.

Her background includes work related to parenting and family dynamics, adoption and foster care, trauma and abuse, domestic violence, and caregiver stress. She has supported people dealing with aging-related concerns and the strains that come with medical or bereavement challenges. Aimee emphasizes communication skills and rebuilding confidence step by step.

In sessions she blends approaches such as cognitive behavioral methods, dialectical skills, emotionally-focused work, motivational interviewing, and psychodynamic ideas. That mix helps address thinking patterns, intense emotions, motivation, and relationship concerns. She tailors the plan to each person’s situation and goals.

Aimee meets people where they are and moves at a practical pace. She encourages setting short-term and longer-term goals, practicing new skills between sessions, and building strengths that support everyday life. Her style is respectful, nonjudgmental, and focused on what the individual needs next.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Aimee uses cognitive behavioral approaches that help people notice and change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns. CBT often focuses on small, practical steps and skills that reduce anxiety, lift mood, and improve sleep.

She also incorporates dialectical behavior therapy skills to help manage strong emotions and cope with stress. DBT-style skills training teaches breathing, grounding, distress tolerance, and communication tools useful during hard moments.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Aimee will talk with each person about goals and preferences and will adapt methods as needed. That collaborative process helps decide whether to lean more on CBT, DBT skills, emotionally-focused ideas, or motivational techniques.

Confirm current session options before booking, since formats are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It also supports practicing skills between meetings and bringing real-life situations into conversation so changes can be applied to everyday routines.