About Amanda
Amanda Gibson is a licensed mental health counselor with 12 years of experience. She works with adults who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or big life changes. Amanda aims to provide a calm, supportive space where people can talk through hard moments and start to find steadier ground.
Amanda uses straightforward, practical approaches. She listens first, then helps set small, clear goals. Sessions often focus on skills for coping, improving decision-making, and managing strong emotions like anger or grief.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with mood concerns such as depression and bipolar disorder. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to notice and change unhelpful thinking and on mindfulness to build calm in everyday life. Dialectical behavior ideas are used when emotional regulation and impulsivity become barriers.
Amanda keeps the work focused and relevant to each person’s daily routines. Amanda has personal experience with cancer and says that experience shapes how she supports people affected by illness. She also has background helping people facing addiction, caregiver stress, traumatic brain injury, and challenges linked to autism and intellectual disability.
Sessions are offered from Indiana and conducted in English. Amanda uses conversations and practical tools to help people increase self-awareness, build better habits, and find ways to move forward after loss or trauma. She encourages small steps and celebrates progress along the way.
How Amanda’s Approaches Work Online
Amanda commonly integrates client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy in sessions. Client-centered work focuses on listening and helping the client set their own goals, which supports people who need a compassionate, steady presence. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and learn new behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood.She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy when emotional regulation or impulsivity are concerns. DBT skills teach concrete strategies for handling intense feelings, improving relationships, and managing urges in the moment. Together these approaches give both emotional support and practical tools to use day to day.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Amanda will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then adjust methods over time. The process is focused on what helps the person function better and feel more stable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone calls can fit into a busy day and use less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or getting support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or treatment schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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