About Amanda
Amanda Schmidt is a licensed professional clinical counselor with nine years of experience working in Minnesota. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. Amanda also supports those facing addictions, depression, and major life changes.
Her approach is straightforward and respectful. She listens first, then shapes conversations to fit each person's situation. Amanda aims to make sessions feel approachable and practical rather than overly clinical.
In sessions she helps people sort priorities, notice patterns, and build small habits that reduce daily stress.
Background and approach
She talks through relationship challenges and communication problems in simple steps people can try between meetings. For clients coping with substance use she focuses on concrete strategies to manage urges and rebuild routines. Amanda also addresses issues like caregiver strain, feelings of isolation, guilt and shame, and questions about life purpose or midlife transitions.
She pays attention to how mood and seasonal changes affect day-to-day functioning and offers ways to adjust routines accordingly. People who choose Amanda can expect a tailored plan, clear goals, and practical tools to practice between sessions. She encourages honest conversation and takes a compassionate, nonjudgmental stance while helping clients work toward steadier mood and clearer direction.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Amanda draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing patterns and building new habits. One common approach helps people notice thought and behavior patterns that increase anxiety or low mood, then experiments with small changes to reduce their impact. This kind of work is useful for stress, social anxiety, and mood disruption.She also uses practical relapse-prevention and coping strategies for people dealing with drug or alcohol addiction. Those techniques teach ways to manage triggers, create daily routines, and rebuild supports that reduce the chance of returning to old habits.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Amanda will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which strategies to try and adjust the plan as progress or new challenges appear.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video works well for a fuller conversation; phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited; chat and messaging suit brief check-ins or busy schedules. These options make it easier to fit therapy into workdays, caregiving duties, or times of high stress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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