About Amanda
Amanda Garcia is a licensed clinical social worker with ten years of experience who helps people manage anxiety, stress, grief, and life changes. She works in a straightforward, down-to-earth way that aims to make therapy feel approachable. Her style is strengths-based and nonjudgmental, and she partners with clients to set practical goals.
Amanda grew up in the Midwest and has lived in Arizona for many years. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in 2011 and a Master’s degree from Arizona State University in 2012 through the Advanced Standing Program.
Background and approach
She obtained her original license in 2015 and now holds an LCSW, which allows independent clinical practice in Arizona. She has worked in a variety of settings and supports people who have experienced domestic violence, physical or emotional abuse, abandonment, or major loss.
Amanda also helps those coping with depression, ADHD, mood disorders, and related concerns such as attachment issues, codependency, and caregiver stress. Her counseling favors practical strategies tailored to each person. She draws on client-centered conversation and skills-based methods to help people reduce symptoms and build coping tools.
Sessions focus on what matters to the client and on small, achievable steps toward better day-to-day functioning. Amanda sees seeking help as a courageous act and aims to create a respectful, compassionate space. If someone in Arizona wants a collaborative therapist who uses real-world techniques, she can help them take the next step.
How Amanda’s approaches translate to online care
Amanda uses client-centered therapy to follow what matters most to the person in front of her, letting the client shape session priorities while she listens and reflects. This approach helps people feel heard and builds a working plan around their goals.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress by giving clear skills to practice between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques are used to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills when strong emotions or conflict get in the way of daily life.
Finding the best approach is part of the work. Amanda will collaborate with each person to pick strategies that match their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made. The goal is a practical fit rather than a fixed method.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full-session conversation and nonverbal cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and messaging supports shorter notes or ongoing tracking between sessions. These formats let people fit therapy into busy schedules and use the method that feels most manageable for them.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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