About Amanda
Amanda Winn is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in Indiana. She focuses on practical support for stress and anxiety, addiction concerns, relationship strain, and the effects of trauma and abuse. Amanda speaks plainly and keeps sessions focused on real steps that people can use between meetings.
She approaches therapy from a client-centered stance, which means she follows the person’s lead and builds on their existing strengths. She also uses cognitive behavioral methods to help identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavior changes.
Background and approach
Dialectical behavior ideas are used when emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills are needed. In session she listens first, then works with each person to set clear, achievable goals. People can expect concrete strategies like thought records, behavioral experiments, and short skills practices to try at home.
Amanda blends those tools with motivational interviewing when someone is feeling unsure about change. Her background includes six years of clinical work in Indiana. That experience includes helping people with mood disorders, panic and obsessive-compulsive symptoms, grief, parenting stress, and challenges related to adoption and attachment.
She also supports people facing career shifts and compassion fatigue. Amanda aims to make therapy straightforward and useful. She encourages honest conversation and small, measurable steps.
If someone wants a collaborative, practical approach to managing anxiety and life’s setbacks, she offers a steady, skills-focused path forward.
Approaches that help when anxiety and stress feel overwhelming
Amanda commonly draws on client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building on a person’s own strengths, which helps when someone needs space to tell their story and decide next steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and offers concrete exercises to reduce anxious symptoms and unhelpful patterns.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy techniques when emotional intensity or impulsivity gets in the way of daily life. Those techniques teach skills for regulating strong feelings, improving interpersonal effectiveness, and tolerating distress without making things worse. Amanda will collaborate with each person to choose which approach or mix of approaches fits their goals and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstration, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for quick updates, brief coaching between sessions, or when someone prefers typed communication. These options let people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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