About Amanda
Amanda Costa is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing in Utah with five years of experience. She focuses on anxiety alongside concerns such as addictions, relationship difficulties, grief, career stress, and coping with life changes. Amanda aims to make it easier for people to talk about what’s hard and to take practical steps forward.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can share thoughts and feelings. Sessions tend to be straightforward and person-focused, with attention to what matters most to each individual.
Background and approach
Amanda uses listening and clear feedback to help clients map small, doable changes. Her approach draws on client-centered work to keep the conversation grounded in each person’s priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to spot and change unhelpful patterns of thinking and behavior.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills support emotion regulation and coping in stressful moments. Amanda also includes EMDR when trauma or painful memories are part of the picture, applying it carefully and at a pace the client chooses. She brings five years of practical experience working with issues such as trauma, addiction, eating and sleeping problems, and compassion fatigue.
Sessions are offered in English and Amanda accepts international clients. She supports people who want help with stress, anxiety, self-esteem, parenting challenges, or making a life transition. The first meeting is about understanding goals and trying a path that fits the person.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Amanda uses client-centered therapy to keep the focus on each person’s goals and experiences. That approach means the conversation is guided by what matters most to the client, with the therapist listening closely and reflecting back what’s helpful.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT can be useful for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns.
The therapist treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will discuss options, try techniques together, and adjust based on the client’s needs, goals, and preferences so the plan fits the person rather than the other way around.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is suited to deeper weekly sessions, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can help with brief check-ins or skill coaching between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work across different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
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