About Amanda
Amanda Dodd is a licensed clinical social worker who centers therapy on each person's experience. She practices in Virginia and brings 14 years of clinical work to concerns like stress, anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and relationship struggles. Her approach is flexible and accepts both faith-based and secular perspectives.
Amanda sees people who want practical steps and clear thinking about what matters to them. She treats addictions, grief, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, career strain, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
Background and approach
She also supports people navigating ADHD, blended family challenges, and caregiver burden. Her style draws on client-centered therapy to follow the person's lead. She uses cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors.
Dialectical behavior therapy skills and mindfulness are part of her toolbox for managing strong emotions and building tolerance for distress. Amanda is kink-friendly and poly-friendly and works in a sex-positive way when those topics are part of therapy. She also attends to attachment and abandonment themes, body image concerns, codependency, and commitment or control issues when they arise.
Sessions can address chronic pain, illness, and co-occurring substance concerns alongside mood or anxiety symptoms. Amanda believes people bring strengths to therapy and focuses on practical strategies that fit each person's life. Her goal is to help people move toward a more satisfying, manageable day-to-day life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Amanda uses client-centered therapy to keep the person's priorities in focus. This approach means the therapist listens for what matters most and shapes the session around those goals. It helps when someone needs support that follows their pace and values.She also applies cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT offers concrete strategies to test unhelpful beliefs and try different behaviors, useful for anxiety, sleep problems, and mood concerns. Dialectical behavior therapy skills and mindfulness are used to build emotion regulation, improve distress tolerance, and strengthen present-moment awareness.
Finding the right fit is a collaborative process. Amanda will work with each person to choose which approaches to use and adjust them over time based on needs, goals, and preferences. She treats therapy as a partnership rather than a set prescription.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is helpful for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options let people fit support into busy days and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- 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
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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