About Amanda
Amanda Elliott is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor who focuses on practical support for anxiety and related concerns. She works in Maine and offers a calm, straightforward style that helps people take small steps toward change. Amanda believes clients know their story best and builds on their strengths to move forward.
Amanda uses methods that help people understand thoughts and reactions and try new responses. She listens closely and helps set doable goals, such as easing panic attacks, reducing daily worry, or managing stress at work.
Background and approach
Sessions are meant to be clear and actionable rather than vague or overly clinical. Over four years of professional experience inform Amanda's approach. She has worked with people facing trauma and abuse, mood changes like depression and bipolar symptoms, and challenges such as low self-esteem, grief, or parenting strain.
She also helps with attention concerns, anger, and relationship or family problems when individuals want support. Amanda often combines client-centered conversations with cognitive behavioral strategies and trauma-focused work. That mix lets her tailor sessions to each person’s needs and pace.
She focuses on what the client wants to change and builds practical tools to try between sessions. People who choose Amanda can expect a respectful, down-to-earth counselor who prioritizes clear goals and steady progress. She aims to empower clients to notice small improvements and to use them as a foundation for longer term change.
Approaches you can use online
Amanda blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral and trauma-focused techniques to address anxiety and related concerns. Client-Centered Therapy centers conversations on the person's experience, offering space to be heard and to identify personal goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thought patterns and teaches practical exercises to reduce worry, panic, and negative mood. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on processing stressful or traumatic memories while teaching skills to manage strong reactions and grounding techniques.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Amanda will discuss goals, what has helped before, and how comfortable a person feels with different techniques. Together they decide what to try first and adjust the plan as progress is made and needs change.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lives. Video is useful for deeper conversation and skills practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can suit brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit counseling into work, family, or busy days while keeping the focus on practical steps to reduce anxiety and improve day-to-day functioning.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English
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