About Amanda
Amanda Ulmer is a Licensed Professional Counselor-Mental Health (LPC-MH) and Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in South Dakota. She brings six years of counseling experience and focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, parenting challenges, self esteem, and depression. Amanda keeps sessions straightforward and respectful.
She listens first, then helps people identify what feels most urgent. She uses practical tools clients can try between sessions to manage difficult feelings and improve daily routines.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with attachment issues, abandonment wounds, and family of origin concerns. She also addresses body image, codependency, control issues, and communication problems. These topics often come up alongside grief, guilt, or the strain caregivers face.
Amanda draws from several therapy approaches to match each person’s needs. She uses client-centered techniques to build trust, cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thoughts, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy for emotional regulation. The goal in sessions is to make steady, realistic change.
Amanda helps people set small goals, practice new skills, and notice progress. She aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk honestly about what’s hard. People who reach out can expect measured steps rather than quick fixes.
Amanda supports clients through difficult transitions like separation, forgiveness work, and rethinking commitment. She encourages clear communication and practical coping strategies.
How Amanda’s Approaches Work Online
Amanda incorporates client-centered therapy to build a trusting relationship. This approach focuses on listening and responding to each person’s experience so they feel understood and respected. It helps when someone needs space to talk through feelings and life decisions.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT offers clear, practical exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. That can be useful for anxiety, stress, and low mood.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Amanda will discuss options and tailor techniques to fit a person’s goals and comfort. Together they pick strategies that match needs, whether that means skill-building, deeper reflection, or short-term problem solving.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video lets people work face to face, phone can be used when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits quick check-ins or flexible timing. These formats make therapy more accessible for those balancing work, caregiving, or busy days while keeping the focus on practical progress and skill practice.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- South Dakota, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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