About Amanda
Amanda DiGenova is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York who focuses on practical ways to reduce anxiety and stress. She draws on ten years of experience to help people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or facing big life changes. Sessions aim to be direct, calm, and focused on what helps in everyday life.
Amanda uses approaches that center the client and build useful skills. She often blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices.
Background and approach
That mix is intended to help people notice unhelpful thoughts, try different actions, and respond to strong feelings with more choice. She has supported people through grief, depression, relationship strain, addiction concerns, and issues around sexual orientation and family structure. Amanda also addresses concerns like self-esteem, intimacy-related challenges, anger, caregiver stress, and coping after trauma or loss.
Her practice includes work related to blended family dynamics and communication problems. Amanda describes her style as encouraging and motivational. She emphasizes a holistic view that connects thoughts, body sensations, and values.
In sessions she listens, reflects, and offers concrete tools to practice between meetings. Practical needs are part of the work. Conversations may include setting small goals, introducing grounding or mindfulness exercises, and using cognitive strategies to test anxious thoughts.
Her approach aims to build steady skills people can use outside of sessions.
Approaches that translate to online care
Amanda commonly uses client-centered work, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and mindfulness practices in her sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and helping people name their priorities and values so they can guide change. CBT looks at thought patterns that feed anxiety and teaches practical exercises to test and shift those thoughts. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing strategies to reduce reactivity and to manage stress and strong emotions.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist decide together which methods feel useful and doable between sessions.
Online work can make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging helps people track progress or get brief coaching between meetings. These options offer flexibility so therapeutic work continues even when schedules or locations change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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