About Amanda
Amanda Spahn is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She emphasizes clear, practical steps and a warm, direct approach that aims to reduce overwhelm and build steady coping skills. Her sessions focus on understanding how past experiences shape current feelings.
She guides people through patterns like guilt, shame, attachment wounds, and codependency. Amanda uses evidence-based techniques to address panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, phobias, and seasonal mood shifts.
Background and approach
She pays special attention to issues many women face, including pressures around identity, self-love, and life purpose. Amanda also supports people working through smoking or vaping cessation and the emotional fallout of major transitions. In the room she helps clients name unhelpful beliefs and try new ways of managing strong feelings.
Conversations are practical and goal-oriented, with steady attention to building everyday habits that make life easier. Amanda has three years of clinical experience and holds an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She practices in Utah and conducts sessions in English.
Her work blends clear structure with genuine curiosity about each person’s story.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Amanda uses evidence-based techniques that focus on clear, practical change. One common approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety and depression. This helps people notice triggers and try out calmer responses.Another approach targets patterns in relationships and attachment. It looks at how early connections shape current reactions and helps people practice different ways of relating to reduce shame, codependency, and abandonment fears.
Finding the right method is part of the work. The therapist and client decide together which techniques to try based on symptoms, goals, and personal preferences. That collaborative process includes checking in and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for many people. Video calls let the therapist and client meet face to face when more interaction is helpful. Phone sessions take less bandwidth and can fit into a busy schedule. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, reflections between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while balancing daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
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