About Amanda
Amanda Pliler is a licensed clinical social worker with ten years of experience. She practices in North Carolina and holds LCSW credentials in both North Carolina and Virginia. Amanda focuses on anxiety and stress and supports people facing grief, depression, parenting concerns, and life changes.
Amanda aims to make sessions feel approachable and straightforward. She helps people put words to their worries and identify small, practical steps they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Conversations are patient and nonjudgmental, with attention to what matters most to each person. Her background includes a decade of clinical work across settings, giving her familiarity with common challenges like panic attacks, mood shifts, and isolation. That experience informs how she helps clients manage symptoms and setbacks over time.
In sessions she focuses on listening first, then mapping out realistic goals. She supports people through transitions such as separation, caregiving stress, and changes in body image or life purpose. Work often centers on building coping skills that fit daily routines.
Amanda also helps people navigate forgiveness, grief, and the practical strains of parenting. She encourages small experiments - new routines, different ways of responding, and clearer communication - to test what helps. The aim is steady progress toward a more manageable, meaningful life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Amanda works with evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and problem solving. One common approach helps people learn coping strategies for anxiety and panic - skills include breathing exercises, grounding techniques, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations to reduce avoidance. Another approach centers on managing mood and depression through activity planning, mood tracking, and testing small behavior changes to boost energy and motivation.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Amanda will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try first and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people see nonverbal cues and work through exercises in real time. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching between sessions, and for people who prefer typed communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep continuity during transitions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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