About Amanda
Amanda Marcum is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who practices in Indiana. She brings 18 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and relationship concerns. Amanda aims to create a welcoming space where people can speak honestly and feel heard.
She uses straightforward conversation to help clients name what feels hard. Sessions often focus on increasing self-awareness and finding practical steps that move a person forward.
Background and approach
Amanda values being open-minded and nonjudgmental when someone shares painful or confusing experiences. Amanda has worked in a range of settings with adolescents, adults, and families. That background shaped her approach to common issues such as parenting strain, LGBT stressors, trauma and abuse, and problems with communication and intimacy.
She also supports people dealing with career stress, compassion fatigue, and life transitions. Her clinical methods include client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused work. These methods are used to address symptoms as well as the behaviors and thoughts that keep problems stuck.
Sessions mix talking, skill-building, and strategies clients can use between meetings. Telehealth options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Amanda often checks messages multiple times per day to help with day-to-day emotions and problem solving.
She describes therapy as a collaborative process and invites new clients to reach out to begin matching and scheduling.
How Amanda's Approaches Translate to Online Care
Amanda draws on client-centered therapy to keep sessions focused on each person's needs and goals. This approach emphasizes listening and building a trusting working relationship so clients feel understood before tackling hard issues.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. CBT offers practical exercises and small experiments clients can use between sessions to reduce anxiety, improve mood, or change unhelpful patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Amanda will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and she adjusts techniques as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well for people with less bandwidth, and live chat or messaging can be a quick way to check in or work through day-to-day emotions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep regular contact between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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