About Amanda
Amanda Hawkins is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Florida with nine years of experience. She supports people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, or life transitions. She emphasizes practical steps and steady encouragement to help people move forward.
Amanda believes each person knows their own story best. She offers a calm, listening presence and helps clients identify their strengths. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, manageable changes rather than long lists of tasks.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with mood disorders, trauma and abuse, and issues that affect identity such as LGBT concerns and gender dysphoria. She also addresses parenting stress, career changes, and medical life changes like cancer or postpartum challenges. This range lets her draw on experience relevant to many common struggles.
In sessions Amanda uses approaches that keep the client central. She uses client-centered listening to understand what matters most. She brings in skills from dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness to help with emotion regulation and stress relief.
The work is collaborative. Amanda and the client set priorities together and track progress. Her style is straightforward, compassionate, and focused on what helps in day-to-day life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Amanda draws on client-centered therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to guide online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building understanding so the client leads the conversation and goals. Dialectical behavior therapy emphasizes practical skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can help with anxiety and stress.She also uses mindfulness techniques to help people notice thoughts and bodily sensations without getting carried away by them. Mindfulness practices can be short and practical, useful during moments of panic or persistent worry. Choosing the right mix of approaches is a team effort - Amanda works with each person to decide what fits their needs, goals, and preferences rather than imposing a single method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports brief check-ins, and text messaging can keep work moving between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to use the method that feels most comfortable.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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