About Amanda
Amanda Miller-Hodges is a mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes. She focuses on practical skills that reduce overwhelming emotions and improve daily functioning. Amanda brings 15 years of clinical experience and a down-to-earth style to sessions.
She uses a mix of approaches to match what each person needs. That might include mindfulness practices to calm the body, cognitive tools to change unhelpful thoughts, or behavioral strategies to manage urges and cravings.
Background and approach
Sessions are meant to feel collaborative and goal-oriented. Amanda also supports people working through relationship problems, family conflict, parenting strain, intimacy issues, and challenges tied to trauma and abuse. She addresses concerns such as anger, low self-esteem, eating issues, ADHD, and substance-related problems with focused skill-building and problem solving.
Her background includes work in outpatient and group settings, plus running intensive outpatient skills groups that use DBT - Dialectical Behavior Therapy. She holds credentials as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, and as a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and practices in Florida. In sessions Amanda aims to help clients find clearer goals and steady ways to reach them.
People can expect straightforward feedback, concrete exercises between meetings, and strategies they can use right away. The approach is practical, paced to the client, and focused on daily change.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Amanda commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to address anxiety, mood concerns, and overwhelming emotions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values, which can help when life feels stuck. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches mindfulness, emotion regulation, interpersonal skills, and distress tolerance to reduce intense reactions and self-destructive coping.The right approach often emerges in conversation. Amanda will work together with each person to pick techniques that fit their goals, preferences, and everyday life. That collaborative process means methods can shift over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for deeper weekly sessions when visual connection helps the work. Phone sessions can be an easier option when bandwidth is limited or for check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, school, or family life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Georgia
- Languages
- English
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