About Amanda
Amanda Potts is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania who helps people manage stress, anxiety, sleep problems, anger, and mood concerns. She brings seven years of clinical experience to sessions and aims to make therapy feel approachable and practical. Amanda works in a conversational, down-to-earth style.
Sessions are collaborative - she listens first and helps clients use their own strengths to set small, doable goals. Her manner is warm and nonjudgmental so people can talk about hard things without feeling criticized.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in corrections, crisis counseling, and primary care. She also spent three years working with youth involved in the justice system. Those settings taught her to respond calmly in stressful moments and to focus on clear, real-world strategies.
Amanda uses methods that emphasize skills and short-term change. She draws from cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused work to build tools for emotion regulation, sleep, and coping with life changes. Sessions often include simple exercises and practical strategies clients can try between meetings.
She supports people facing depression, ADHD, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting stress, self-esteem struggles, panic attacks, and issues related to prejudice and discrimination. Amanda also helps with smoking or vaping cessation and first responder related stress. Therapy sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Amanda encourages clients to start with a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions that fit their needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Amanda commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy in online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve sleep. Dialectical behavior therapy teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, reducing impulsivity, and improving coping during stressful moments.She also uses mindfulness techniques to help people build present-moment awareness and reduce rumination. Each approach is presented in simple steps and practiced in session so clients can try them between meetings. Finding the right mix of methods is part of the therapy process; Amanda works together with each client to choose approaches that fit their goals, needs, and daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is helpful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing brief coaching and reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, and family routines while using approaches that focus on skill building and practical change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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