About Amanda
Amanda Hager is a licensed professional counselor with eight years of clinical experience. She centers the therapy process on collaboration and adapts her work to each person's changing needs. Amanda focuses on anxiety among other concerns and aims to help people build stronger emotional foundations.
She creates a calm space for honest conversations without judgment. Amanda pays attention to how a person's life story affects daily struggles. She listens for the influence of culture, community, family patterns, and societal pressures.
Background and approach
That context helps shape practical goals and the pace of work. Her background includes extended work with eating disorders, attention differences, high-risk thoughts and behaviors, and people from queer communities. She also has experience supporting people coping with complex grief and loss, long-term health issues such as living with HIV/AIDS, and stress related to caregiving and burnout.
In sessions Amanda avoids one-size-fits-all approaches. She tends to emphasize strengths and real-life skills that people can try between meetings. Conversations often focus on story, meaning, and small concrete steps to reduce overwhelm.
Clients can expect straightforward talk about priorities, a chance to reframe difficult experiences, and practical strategies for daily life. Her style is warm and direct, with attention to personal values and lived experience.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Amanda draws from client-centered therapy and narrative therapy to shape online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening without judgment and helping people identify their own priorities; it is useful for issues like anxiety, self-esteem, and relationship concerns. Narrative therapy looks at how personal stories shape feelings and behavior and helps people reframe unhelpful narratives to make different choices.Finding the right approach is part of the collaboration. Amanda will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjust methods as needs change. She treats the first few sessions as a chance to test what works and to set clear, manageable steps together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for a fuller conversation and body language cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat or text-based messaging can support brief check-ins, quick coping reminders, or ongoing problem solving between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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