About Amanda
Amanda Perkins is a Florida licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing anxiety, stress, grief, and relationship struggles. She writes plainly and listens closely, aiming to make therapy feel manageable for someone juggling family, work, or health concerns. She uses straightforward talk and practical tools in sessions.
That can mean identifying unhelpful thoughts, practicing new ways of relating, or experimenting with small behavior changes between meetings. Sessions are paced to fit each person's needs and daily life.
Background and approach
With ten years of experience, Amanda has worked with people dealing with trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, chronic illness, and shifts like career change or adoption and foster care issues. She also supports people navigating identity concerns, body image, and commitment or communication problems. Amanda draws from several well-known approaches to guide her work.
She blends acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive techniques, attachment-focused listening, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy when helpful. The mix is chosen to suit the problem at hand rather than follow a single formula. Her goal is to help people build self-compassion, clearer communication, and steady coping habits.
New clients can expect a calm, nonjudgmental space to talk through pain, sort priorities, and practice changes that make daily life a bit easier.
Therapeutic approaches applied to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages noticing thoughts and values-based action rather than fighting unwanted feelings; it can help with anxiety, stress, and life transitions by focusing on what matters to the person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thinking patterns and tests new behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily functioning; it’s useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with change. Attachment-Based Therapy emphasizes understanding relational patterns and how early connections shape current relationships, which can help with intimacy issues, communication problems, and attachment concerns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and try different strategies to find what fits. Adjustments are made over time so the work aligns with the client’s needs and preferences rather than sticking to a single method.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick reflections, ongoing coaching, or follow-up between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or health-related schedules while still using the therapist’s chosen approaches.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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