About Amanda
Amanda Taylor is a licensed professional counselor in Louisiana with ten years of experience. She helps people who are feeling stressed, anxious, low in confidence, stuck in a career rut, or struggling with depression. Amanda also offers coaching to support motivation and workplace challenges.
Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and works alongside them to build on their strengths.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings rather than only talking about problems. Amanda draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address anxiety, stress, and self-esteem concerns. She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, caregiving strain, body image, communication problems, and the emotional fallout of separation or divorce.
Conversations may include problem-solving, coping skills, and goal setting tailored to each person. She has worked with clients across workplace and personal life challenges, including career transitions, executive coaching needs, and grief around end-of-life situations. Amanda emphasizes small, manageable changes that fit into a person's daily routine.
People who reach out can expect calm, clear guidance and a focus on what they can do now. Amanda encourages taking the first step and will help create a plan that fits each person’s goals and timeline.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Amanda uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address anxiety and stress. One common method focuses on teaching coping skills and behavioral changes to reduce worry and improve daily functioning. These techniques help people manage anxious thoughts and build routines that lower stress.Another commonly used approach emphasizes problem-solving and goal setting to tackle career and motivation challenges. This method breaks larger goals into smaller actions and tracks progress, which can help with confidence and momentum. Both approaches are practical and action oriented, aimed at producing usable tools between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Amanda will work with each person to understand their needs, goals, and preferences, and then suggest a plan to try. She adapts strategies over time based on what is helping and what isn’t, so the plan can change as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and nonverbal cues, phone sessions can fit a busy schedule or require less bandwidth, and chat or messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing coaching-style contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving routines, or when travel would be difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Antisocial personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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