About Amanda
Amanda Rice is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, and life changes. She works with adults who feel stuck by low self-esteem, career strain, grief, or relationship and intimacy concerns. Amanda speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can try right away.
She uses a tailored approach that fits each person's needs. Sessions are shaped around what a client wants to change and what feels doable for their life.
Background and approach
Amanda emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every conversation. Her practice draws on several established methods including client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, and trauma-informed techniques. That mix lets her help people reduce overwhelming thoughts, build new coping skills, and process difficult experiences at a steady pace.
Over the past 10 years Amanda has worked in settings that gave her repeated exposure to anxiety, mood concerns, and trauma-related problems. She combines that experience with straightforward coaching for career and motivation issues when useful. Her goal is to support progress without rushing the process.
People who choose Amanda typically want a clear plan and hands-on tools alongside listening and emotional support. She helps clients set manageable goals, try new behaviors between sessions, and track what works so change feels real and sustainable.
How Amanda’s Approaches Work Online
Amanda commonly uses client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral therapy to help people manage anxiety, stress, and mood difficulties. Client-centered work focuses on listening closely and shaping sessions around what matters most to the client, helping them feel heard and respected. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches tools to shift them, which can reduce worry and improve daily functioning.She also draws on trauma-focused techniques when past events continue to cause distress. Those techniques move at the client’s pace and focus on processing memories and building coping skills so triggers become easier to handle. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together - Amanda will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and comfort level.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video sessions are helpful for face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins, skill practice between meetings, or support when scheduling a full session is difficult. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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