About Amanda
Dr. Amanda Antis is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with 15 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, low mood, or relationship strain.
She offers straightforward support and encourages practical steps toward change. She uses approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different actions. Sessions are shaped to each person's situation and goals.
Background and approach
Her style is collaborative and respectful while staying focused on what will help in daily life. Dr. Antis also draws on client-centered and solution-focused methods when a gentle, goal-oriented approach fits better.
These approaches can help people build self-esteem, manage grief, and improve communication. She works on skills for coping with life changes and handling strong emotions like anger or compassion fatigue. Her background includes significant work with trauma and abuse survivors and with people facing addictions and bipolar mood challenges.
She pays attention to attachment and abandonment concerns and supports people dealing with body image, eating issues, or ADHD-related struggles. Practical plans and small habit changes are common parts of her sessions. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines and needs.
The process begins by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling according to therapist availability. Fees vary by location and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small actions that move a person toward what matters, which can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It teaches practical skills to challenge unhelpful thinking and build coping skills for depression, anxiety, and anger management.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your concerns and together you will try methods that match your goals and preferences. That collaborative process allows sessions to shift if something isn't working or if your needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and different needs. Video calls let you work face to face when you want that interaction. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier during a quick break. Live chat or text-based messaging supports shorter check-ins, on-the-go reflection, and ongoing prompts between sessions.
These options make it easier to fit regular sessions into daily life and to keep practicing skills between meetings with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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