Amy Hagerstrom

Amy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner specializing in trauma, anxiety, and midlife stress. She works with adults who want therapy that includes both mind and body.

Somatic Experiencing is an experiential approach that focuses on the body’s responses to stress, trauma, and overwhelming experiences. Amy helps clients actively work with fight, flight, freeze, and shutdown responses in manageable ways to increase felt safety and build greater capacity for what comes up in life. This can involve slowing things down, noticing what is happening in the body, and sometimes using movement or other experiential work. Her approach is truly mind and body, with space for emotional and cognitive depth as well as the body and nervous system.

Amy brings a very human approach to therapy, with warmth, honesty, and genuine connection. She may gently challenge clients or offer another perspective when it’s helpful, and there is plenty of room for humor and laughter.

Amy earned her Master of Social Work from Erikson Institute in Chicago and brings a developmental lens to her work. She believes people are complex, that their responses make sense in the context of what they’ve experienced, and that people are capable of healing, change, and growth.

Amy is licensed in Illinois and Florida and provides all sessions online. To learn more about Amy or schedule a consultation, visit www.amyhagerstrom.com