About Amanda
Amanda Vaughan is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 13 years of experience. She works with people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship trouble, and the aftermath of trauma. Amanda aims to make sessions feel approachable and practical for people worried about day-to-day life.
Her style is warm, direct, and nonjudgmental. She focuses on helping people build coping skills they can use right away. Mindfulness exercises and straightforward behavior tools are often part of a session.
Background and approach
Amanda draws from client-centered methods to keep the conversation focused on each person's concerns. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and create small experiments to test change. Dialectical behavior strategies help when emotions feel overwhelming or when someone is stuck in painful patterns.
In longer-term work she brings existential ideas to questions of meaning and life direction. That can help when major changes, grief, or questions about identity come up. Amanda also uses motivational interviewing to support people facing addiction or wanting change but feeling unsure how to start.
She has experience in crisis intervention, group work, and intensive treatment settings. That background shapes how she plans sessions and offers practical tools for coping. Amanda practices in Massachusetts and offers sessions in English.
How Amanda’s approaches translate to online therapy
Amanda commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy when working with stress, anxiety, depression, and patterns that keep repeating. CBT focuses on noticing thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce distress. DBT teaches specific skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication when relationships are strained.She also draws on client-centered therapy, which centers the session on the person’s goals and experience. That means sessions are collaborative - the therapist and client decide together which tools to try and when to adjust the plan. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work, and Amanda will help tailor methods to a person’s needs and preferences.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different routines. Video is useful for fuller conversation and skills practice, phone sessions fit a tight schedule or low bandwidth, and chat or messaging can support short check-ins or step-by-step coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and life demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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