About Amanda
Amanda Buchanan is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and trauma. She works with people navigating LGBTQ+ issues, sexuality, and relationship styles such as polyamory and kink. Her manner is direct and compassionate, aimed at helping clients feel seen and understood.
Amanda uses clear, practical tools in sessions so clients can try new things between meetings. She draws on approaches like cognitive behavioral strategies, skills from dialectical behavior therapy, and motivational interviewing to support change.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what feels most useful to each person rather than fitting everyone to the same plan. <brHer background includes long-term work with first responders, caregivers, and people coping with substance use and codependency. She also supports those processing past abuse, panic attacks, and social anxiety.
This experience shapes how she helps people build routines, handle triggers, and regain a sense of control. <br.Amanda aims to create an affirming environment for gender-diverse and LGBTQ+ clients, including people exploring gender dysphoria or HIV-related concerns. She pays attention to cultural and identity issues so care matches each person’s life and values. <br.Therapy with Amanda is collaborative.
She helps set realistic goals, checks progress regularly, and adjusts tools as needed. People who want a practical, respectful approach to emotional challenges often find this style helpful.
How Amanda’s Approaches Work Online
Amanda commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and depression. Dialectical behavior therapy offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance, which can help with panic and trauma symptoms.She also draws on motivational interviewing to support people who want to change addictive behaviors or build new routines. That method uses questions and reflective listening to help people find their own reasons to change. Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process; Amanda works with each person to figure out what fits their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let therapists observe tone and facial expression, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing, shorter exchanges between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy schedules while keeping focus on practical skills and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- HIV / AIDS
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky, Tennessee, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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