About Amanda
Amanda Leftridge is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress. She offers straightforward support for common concerns like depression, grief, sleep problems, anger, and changes in life circumstances. Amanda is LGBTQIA+ friendly and emphasizes respect and dignity for each person she meets.
She spent two years working in a cancer center, providing case management and mental health support to oncology patients and their loved ones.
Background and approach
That work included helping people facing serious illness, hospice and end-of-life questions, and caregiver stress. Amanda also has experience with chronic pain, HIV, and other complex medical and behavioral health needs. In sessions she blends practical strategies with a compassionate tone.
She uses approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness techniques, solution-focused ideas, motivational interviewing, and psychodynamic perspectives to match a person’s needs. Sessions are shaped around what a person wants to change and what fits their life. Amanda works with adults across the lifespan and addresses concerns like relationship difficulties, intimacy-related issues, career stress, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.
She aims to help people build skills that ease daily struggles and improve coping over time. Her practice style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Amanda helps clients set realistic goals, talks through concrete steps, and checks in on progress so people can move forward at a comfortable pace.
How Amanda’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Amanda often uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. CBT gives clear tools and exercises that can be practiced between sessions to manage worry and improve sleep.She also incorporates mindfulness therapy to help people notice stress reactions and ground themselves in the present moment. Mindfulness exercises are simple practices that can reduce reactivity to stressful thoughts and physical tension.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Amanda works collaboratively to choose techniques that match a person's goals, preferences, and daily routine. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan when something isn’t working or when life changes require a new focus.
Online therapy makes these methods easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option when video is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching moments, or steady support between longer sessions. These options give flexibility for scheduling and different ways to practice skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- First responder issues
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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