About Ammari
Ammari Edwards is a New York licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and major life changes. She has 11 years of experience and offers practical, respectful support tailored to each person’s goals. Her style is warm and collaborative, focused on listening first and then working together to find what helps.
She uses a mix of body-aware work and evidence-based therapies to address difficult feelings and reactions.
Background and approach
Somatic approaches are included alongside cognitive and acceptance-based tools to help people notice how stress shows up in the body and learn ways to calm it. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy are part of her toolkit for changing unhelpful thoughts and building values-based action.
Ammari draws on experience gained over more than a decade, including work with World Trade Center first responders, which shaped her understanding of trauma and resilience in high-stress roles. She takes a trauma-informed stance and aims to create steady pacing in sessions so people feel grounded while they process hard material.
Sessions focus on practical skills, real-life problem solving, and building toward clear goals. Conversations may include breathing and body-awareness exercises, thought-restructuring, values clarification, and communication strategies. The plan evolves based on progress and feedback.
People meet with Ammari for a wide range of concerns such as panic attacks, grief, workplace stress, relationship communication problems, and issues like shame or isolation. She works in English and practices in New York as LCSW 098744.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Somatic-informed work pays attention to the body and physical sensations to help people notice where stress and emotions live. It can be useful for panic, trauma responses, and somatization by offering gentle grounding and awareness practices. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on values and committed action; it helps people accept difficult thoughts while moving toward what matters to them. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and supports changes in how people connect and communicate with others.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and reactions to different techniques and together decide what fits best. This collaborative planning lets the work stay flexible as needs shift.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to work around busy schedules and manage care from home. These options allow follow-up contact, brief check-ins, and a range of session lengths to suit daily life while keeping focus on practical skills, body-awareness exercises, and steps toward goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English