About Amanda
Amanda Davis is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with nine years of clinical experience. She approaches therapy as a collaborative process and treats each person as the expert on their own life. Amanda focuses on practical steps that help people manage stress and anxiety and feel more confident in day-to-day life.
She listens first and asks questions that help uncover what matters most. Sessions aim to create space to be heard and to name what feels stuck.
Background and approach
Amanda works to build goals that fit each person's reality and values. Her background includes work with trauma, grief, and relationship concerns. She also supports people facing challenges around self-esteem, sexuality, and identity.
Amanda brings attention to patterns that come from early attachment and family of origin issues that affect current relationships. Amanda uses a mix of approaches that match each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and change small behaviors.
Mindfulness practices are used to increase calm and focus. Client-centered and attachment-informed conversations guide how goals get set and refined. Sessions can address life transitions like career changes, parenting stress, and caregiver fatigue.
Amanda pays attention to overlapping issues such as depression, social anxiety, and post-traumatic stress. The goal is steady, manageable progress rather than quick fixes.
How Amanda's Approaches Work Online
Amanda often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice thoughts and try small behavior changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood, and social fears because it focuses on clear steps and skill building.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers on listening and following the person's lead. This approach helps people clarify goals, feel understood, and set priorities at their own pace.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Amanda will discuss options, try techniques, and adjust based on the client's needs, goals, and comfort level in sessions. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that feels useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different rhythms of life. Video calls let people read facial cues and have a more traditional session feel. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter routine is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer shorter check-ins and flexibility for busy days. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines while keeping focus on progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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