About Amanda
Amanda Shelton is a licensed mental health counselor in Indiana with 14 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and mood challenges. Amanda speaks plainly and offers steady support for day-to-day struggles and intense moments alike.
Amanda's work centers on practical coping skills. She helps people who face panic attacks, social anxiety, and isolation learn ways to feel more grounded. She also supports those dealing with trauma, addictions, and the ups and downs of bipolar disorder.
Background and approach
Sessions typically look like calm conversations about what is happening now. Amanda helps clients spot unhelpful patterns and try new ways of coping. She often focuses on communication skills, reducing shame and guilt, and strengthening self-care and self-love.
Caregiver stress and body image concerns are frequent topics she addresses. Amanda pays attention to how relationships and daily responsibilities affect mood. She helps people create clearer boundaries and build routines that reduce overwhelm.
Amanda uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide change. Her style is collaborative - she listens, offers ideas, and adjusts plans to fit what actually works for each person. The goal is to build resilience and small, steady steps toward feeling more like yourself.
How Amanda Uses Evidence-Based Approaches Online
Amanda works with evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, teachable skills. One common approach is skill-building for anxiety and panic; this involves learning breathing and attention strategies, testing unhelpful thoughts, and practicing small exposures to feared situations to reduce reactivity over time. It helps people who struggle with panic attacks, social anxiety, and overwhelming worry.Another frequent focus is trauma-informed care that helps people process difficult experiences at a manageable pace. This approach combines grounding techniques, emotion regulation skills, and paced processing so people can reduce symptoms and rebuild daily functioning. It is useful for those coping with past abuse, post-traumatic stress, and intense stress reactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Amanda treats the choice of methods as collaborative - she listens to your goals and preferences, suggests options, and adjusts the plan as needed so it fits your life and what you want to change.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to connect around work, caregiving, and everyday schedules.
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Also listed
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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