About Amanda
Amanda Kayes-Carson "Kayes" is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Colorado. She helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma and relationship concerns. Kayes also works with issues like parenting strain, grief, self-esteem, ADHD, and career stress.
She uses a person-centered style that focuses on the person's own goals and strengths. Sessions are practical and direct; Kayes listens closely and helps people set clear steps to try between meetings.
Background and approach
She adapts the pace and tools to each person's needs rather than following a single fixed plan. Her approach draws on attachment-focused ideas to look at relationship patterns and on cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking and behavior. Dialectical behavior strategies are used when people need skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
This mix helps with both immediate coping and longer-term change. With 24 years of experience as an LPC, Kayes has worked with many common concerns people bring into therapy. She aims to create a respectful, compassionate space where people can talk through painful experiences and practice new ways of coping.
Appointments can be held by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling through the site's Start Therapy process. Kayes will work with each person to build a plan that fits their life and goals.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Amanda combines attachment-focused work with cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change patterns that cause distress. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationship experiences shape current reactions and helps people build healthier ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and testing new skills to reduce anxiety and depression.She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. These are concrete coping tools that people can practice between sessions, which makes them a good fit for online formats. Choosing the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process - Kayes will work with each person to decide which methods match their goals, needs, and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can be a shorter, immediate way to share updates or manage skills practice between appointments. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain ongoing momentum.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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