About Amanda
Amanda Slone is a licensed professional clinical counselor with 21 years of experience based in Kentucky. She focuses on practical support for common struggles like anxiety, stress, mood changes, and grief. Amanda aims to make it easier to talk about what’s hard and to take small, useful steps forward.
She builds a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can say what they think and feel. Sessions tend to be straightforward and collaborative.
Background and approach
Amanda listens, helps clarify priorities, and offers concrete strategies to manage symptoms and day-to-day challenges. Her background includes long work with mood disorders, trauma and abuse, addictions, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses guilt and shame, panic attacks, personality-related difficulties, and seasonal mood shifts.
Amanda brings experience supporting issues that affect women and LGBT clients. Therapeutic work often combines client-centered conversations with skills-based tools. She uses mindfulness techniques to reduce reactivity, problem-focused planning to set goals, and motivational conversation to strengthen commitment to change.
Dialectical behavior therapy skills are woven in when strong emotions make coping difficult. Sessions can include coaching elements when a client wants focused, goal-oriented help. Amanda aims to help people notice patterns, test new ways of coping, and build routines that feel manageable.
She encourages gradual progress and practical solutions. People who want help with anxiety, panic, depression, or major life transitions may find her approach direct and compassionate. Amanda emphasizes partnership in the work and meeting clients where they are.
How Amanda’s Approaches Work Online
Amanda uses client-centered therapy to focus on what matters to each person. That means sessions start with the client’s concerns and goals, and the therapist follows the client’s lead while offering guidance and reflection. It helps when someone needs space to be heard and to make sense of emotions.She also blends in mindfulness therapy to teach attention and breathing skills that reduce reactivity. Mindfulness work can be useful for anxiety, panic, and stress by helping a person notice thoughts and calm the body. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used when intense emotions or impulsive behaviors make life harder; these skills focus on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication.
Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the first weeks of work. Amanda will collaborate with each client to decide which tools fit their goals and daily life. That collaborative process means plans can change as progress is made or new needs emerge.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to get that care. Video calls are good for in-depth conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can fit a busy day or lower bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging allow quick check-ins, brief coaching, or follow-up between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain momentum while balancing work, family, and other responsibilities.
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- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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