About Amanda
Amanda Ihle is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 16 years of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the fallout from trauma and addiction. Amanda aims to make starting therapy feel like a doable step rather than an impossible leap.
She spent eight years providing addiction-related care in Washington State, including work with juvenile court and school-based treatment programs. For the past eight years she has practiced in a level one trauma emergency room in Portland, Oregon.
Background and approach
That mix of community and acute-care work informs her practical approach. Sessions focus on clear, usable strategies. Amanda uses approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to address unhelpful thinking and build calmer habits.
She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-based ideas to help people connect values with action and understand relationship patterns. Amanda listens without judgment and helps people name what matters most to them. She supports work on relationships, intimacy-related concerns, parenting stress, sleep problems, anger, and coping with major life changes.
Additional topics she commonly addresses include codependency, body image, dissociation, and forgiveness. Her style is direct but warm. Amanda helps clients set practical goals, try small experiments between sessions, and notice what changes.
People who want clear tools and steady support often find this approach useful.
Therapeutic approaches that translate online
Amanda uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors. CBT often includes small experiments and practical exercises that translate well to online sessions and messaging.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on identifying personal values and taking committed steps toward them despite uncomfortable thoughts or feelings. ACT tools can be practiced between sessions and discussed during video or text work.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Amanda collaborates with clients to choose methods that match their goals and daily life. She will adjust strategies based on what a person finds helpful, whether that is skill-building, values work, or relationship-focused exploration.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or mobility limits. Video sessions let you use visual cues and screen-shared worksheets, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can fit quick check-ins or brief coaching-style support. These options make it easier to maintain steady work on stress, anxiety, addiction recovery, and coping with life changes while fitting therapy into a real routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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