About Amanda
Amanda Lindsey is a Florida licensed mental health counselor who helps people cope with stress and anxiety. She focuses on practical steps that make daily life easier. Amanda speaks plainly and supports people who are ready to try a different way forward.
She has 15 years of experience working with trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and depression. Her approach starts with listening to each person's story and finding strengths to build on.
Background and approach
She acknowledges that beginning therapy takes courage and aims to make the process steady and understandable. In sessions Amanda uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address symptoms and daily problems. She helps people develop coping skills, manage overwhelming feelings, and plan small, realistic changes.
Conversations tend to be direct and focused on what will help between appointments. Amanda also works with concerns like abandonment, attachment issues, and relationship communication problems. She supports people dealing with chronic illness, caregiver stress, body image, and life transitions.
Her experience includes helping people affected by loss, blended family stress, and other complex situations. Clients can expect clear goals and practical tools. Amanda aims to match helpful strategies to each person’s needs.
She believes progress often comes from small, consistent steps rather than sudden fixes.
How Amanda’s approaches translate to online work
Amanda uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills people can practice between sessions. One approach emphasizes building coping skills to reduce anxiety and manage stress by teaching breathing, grounding, and routine changes that can be practiced at home. Another approach concentrates on processing traumatic events and difficult emotions through step-by-step pacing and support, helping people tolerate strong feelings and regain stability.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Amanda works collaboratively with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She starts with listening, then suggests strategies and adjusts them as progress is made so the plan fits the person's life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and detailed work, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates, shorter check-ins, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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