About Amanda
Amanda Van Milligan is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Indiana who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and self-esteem concerns. She draws on a decade of experience across outpatient, inpatient, and hospital settings to offer steady, practical support for everyday struggles. Her style is direct and respectful.
She treats each person as the expert on their life and focuses on strengths you already have. Sessions aim to build coping skills, clarify goals, and reduce what feels overwhelming right now.
Background and approach
Amanda uses conversational, evidence-informed methods to guide sessions. She combines client-centered listening with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Solution-focused work helps set clear, achievable next steps between sessions.
She has worked in intensive outpatient programs and emergency services as well as standard outpatient care. That range means she’s familiar with both short-term problem solving and longer-term patterns that keep people stuck. Amanda emphasizes practical tools you can use the day after a session.
People most often bring relationship strain, family issues, parenting stress, career worries, or recovery from trauma and loss. Amanda also supports concerns like compassion fatigue, anger, isolation, and questions of life purpose and self-love. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How Amanda’s approaches work online
Amanda uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to guide online sessions. Client-centered therapy means the conversation focuses on the person’s experience and priorities, with the therapist reflecting and supporting whatever the client brings. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and low mood.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Amanda will listen to your goals and preferences and match methods accordingly. Together you can try different techniques and adjust the plan based on what helps most in day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let you have a fuller conversation and read facial cues, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth or visual focus is an issue. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, quick coping ideas, or when scheduling makes live sessions difficult. These options aim to make regular therapy easier to fit into work, parenting, and busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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