About Amanda
Amanda Scardino is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 25 years of experience helping people navigate anxiety and life stress. She offers a warm, nonreligious approach that aims to make hard conversations feel manageable. Amanda focuses on everyday problems like relationship strain, parenting pressures, grief, and changes at work.
In sessions she uses practical strategies from cognitive and acceptance-based therapies. Clients learn ways to notice unhelpful thoughts and to take steps that match their values.
Background and approach
She also brings mindfulness practices to moments of high emotion to help people calm down and think more clearly. Amanda frames therapy as a collaborative process. She listens first, then introduces tools that fit a person's goals and daily life.
The work often includes short exercises, goal-setting, and steady progress checks so people can see change over time. Her background includes long experience with stress, anxiety, LGBT issues, parenting concerns, grief, intimacy-related problems, anger, self-esteem, career questions, depression, coping with life changes, and ADHD.
Amanda draws on a mix of approaches to match each person's needs rather than using a single method for everyone. She offers sessions in English from Texas and accepts international clients. People who choose her often want a straightforward therapist who uses real tools and gentle direction to build practical skills.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Amanda often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thought patterns and change behaviors that keep anxiety or low mood going. CBT uses clear steps and exercises you can practice between sessions to get faster relief from worrying habits.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which encourages people to clarify what matters to them and take small, values-driven steps even when uncomfortable feelings remain. ACT is useful for people who want to live more intentionally despite anxiety or stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amanda treats therapy as a collaboration and will help you decide which methods match your needs, goals, and preferences. Together you can try different tools and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let you have a full conversation with visual cues, phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports shorter, ongoing contact between meetings. These options allow flexibility for people managing work, parenting, or travel while keeping steady momentum in therapy.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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