Amy Hagerstrom

 Amy Hagerstrom is a prelicensed psychotherapist who obtained a Master’s in Social Work with a concentration in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health from Erikson Institute in Chicago. She has worked with a wide range of clinical issues including anxiety, depression, ADHD, substance use, and PTSD. Amy has worked with young children and their caregivers as well as with adults. Currently she only sees adults; however, her work with children as well as her studies in early childhood development has greatly informed the work she does with clients now. 

Amy’s therapeutic approach is informed by her Somatic Experiencing training, which is mind-body and trauma based, as well as attachment theory, psychodynamic, and relational frameworks. Her style is both warm, firm, and collaborative. She believes therapy shouldn’t be all serious, allowing for space to laugh and embrace the good while incorporating the harder parts of the therapeutic process. 

amyhagerstromtherapy@gmail.com

(312) 857-4446

Coaching

In addition to working as a psychotherapist, Amy also is a Somatic Coach. This work isn’t pathologizing and is focused on the mind-body connection. Through Somatic Experiencing and Safe and Sound Protocol (a passive listening therapy that brings safety into the nervous system), Amy works with clients to help them resolve nervous system dysregulation that is keeping them stuck in states of fight, flight, freeze, and collapse. These states can often show up through emotional dysregulation, freezing or lashing out in the face of challenge, chronic pain, and much more. Because this work isn’t psychotherapy, she can see clients from anywhere in the world. 

If you are interested in learning more about this work, you can visit her website at www.amyhagerstrom.com or contact her at hello@amyhagerstrom.com