About Amanda
Amanda Roman is a California licensed marriage and family therapist with six years of clinical experience supporting people who struggle with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression. She focuses on helping people build confidence and find more motivation for daily life. Amanda aims to make the first step feel manageable and less overwhelming for anyone considering therapy.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through difficult thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and practical. Amanda listens closely and helps people identify small changes that can reduce worry and lift mood. Amanda blends several approaches to match each person's needs.
She draws from cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and from acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and take meaningful action. Elements of dialectical behavior therapy and client-centered methods are used when emotional regulation and relationship concerns come up. Her style is warm and direct.
She focuses on clear goals and simple tools that people can try between sessions. Progress is tracked in ways that feel realistic for the person in front of her. People who are dealing with loneliness, communication struggles, guilt, or questions about life purpose may find her approach useful.
Amanda supports clients working through impulsivity, mood shifts, and the search for greater self-love. She works in English and practices in California.
How Amanda’s approaches translate to online therapy
Amanda uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. This approach often involves concrete exercises and short homework tasks that work well between sessions online.She also integrates acceptance and commitment therapy, which helps people clarify what matters most to them and take committed steps toward those values despite uncomfortable feelings. ACT can be useful for stress and life-purpose questions and pairs naturally with online check-ins and messaging between appointments.
Finding the right therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. Amanda will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and daily life to decide which methods to emphasize. She adapts techniques based on feedback and progress so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, quick coping reminders, and flexible communication between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to practice skills in real time.
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- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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