About Amanda
Amanda Averill is a licensed social worker who works with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life changes. She brings a calm, down-to-earth approach and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Amanda is licensed in Ohio as a LICSW and in Minnesota as a LISW and has ten years of clinical experience.
She believes people know their own story and brings curiosity to help them find what is already working.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. Amanda helps clients name patterns, try new coping strategies, and build routines that reduce overwhelm. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including relationship strain, parenting challenges, addiction, trauma and abuse, and issues related to self-esteem and identity.
She also supports people with grief, caregiving stress, and career transitions. Amanda uses everyday language to make therapy clear and doable. In sessions she emphasizes safety and steady progress over quick fixes.
She helps clients break big problems into small steps. Homework and check-ins are simple and geared to each person’s life and schedule. Amanda practices from Ohio and draws on a decade of practice in community and clinical settings.
She welcomes questions about how therapy could fit into a busy life and offers phone, video, chat, and text options for ongoing support.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Amanda uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and problem solving. One common approach she uses helps people learn specific coping skills for anxiety and stress, such as paced breathing, activity scheduling, and breaking tasks into smaller steps. These tools are useful for day-to-day overwhelm and anxiety management.She also works with attachment and relationship patterns to help clients improve communication and set healthier boundaries. That work looks at recurring reactions, explores where they come from, and tests new ways of relating in small, manageable steps.
Finding the right approach is a joint process. Amanda will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then suggest options to try. She adjusts methods over time based on what’s helpful and what fits someone’s life.
Online therapy gives flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and reading visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for shorter updates, coaching-style support, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, school, or caregiving duties.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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