About Amanda
Amanda Abernethy is a licensed independent social worker in Ohio who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She offers steady, straightforward support for those facing trauma, relationship strain, and life changes. Amanda speaks English and brings 13 years of professional experience to her work.
Amanda starts by listening to each person's story and acknowledging their strengths. She treats people as the experts on their own lives and helps them build on what already works.
Background and approach
The first appointment is often about clarifying concerns and agreeing on practical next steps. In sessions she helps people talk through anxiety, cope with loss or separation, and process past abuse or traumatic events. She also supports people facing complex issues like attachment wounds, adoption or foster care challenges, and the stress of caregiving or chronic illness.
Communication and commitment concerns are common topics she addresses. Amanda is familiar with a wide range of life stressors, including domestic violence, divorce, blended family issues, and experiences related to LGBT identity. She also works with clients who have questions about kink, BDSM, or alternative sexual cultures, and helps people cope after natural or human-caused disasters.
Her approach is practical and person-centered. Amanda helps clients set realistic goals, try small changes, and notice what shifts. She encourages steady progress and supports people as they adjust plans when needed.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Amanda draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that help people manage stress and anxiety. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxious symptoms; it aims to break cycles that keep worry active and helps people try practical alternatives. Another approach she uses helps people process traumatic memories and their impact by building safety, grounding skills, and gradual exposure to feared memories or situations; this is useful for trauma, abuse, and disaster-related stress.Choosing the right therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. Amanda listens to your goals, reviews what has or hasn’t helped before, and together you decide which methods to try. Treatment plans are adjusted over time so the approach fits your needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions work well for in-depth conversation and nonverbal cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients send progress notes or check in between sessions without scheduling a full call. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping a steady connection with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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