About Baotran
Baotran Amanda Nguyen is a licensed clinician who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and relationship struggles. She addresses mood concerns like depression and bipolar mood shifts, as well as issues such as anger, low self-esteem, addiction, and parenting stress. Amanda works in California and brings four years of professional experience to her practice.
She holds the LMFT and LPCC credentials, and offers sessions in English. Amanda aims for clear, practical conversations.
Background and approach
She focuses on building trust and listening first, then helps clients set small, realistic goals. Sessions emphasize everyday skills people can use between meetings, such as behavior changes, coping tools, and ways to reframe troubling thoughts. Her approach combines client-centered care with cognitive and behavioral tools.
Amanda uses techniques drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and from Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Motivational Interviewing helps with ambivalence about change, while Narrative Therapy supports people in rewriting hard life stories. She has worked across settings with people facing complex life challenges, including trauma, chronic illness, attachment concerns, and career transitions.
Amanda also addresses topics like forgiveness, codependency, and feeling isolated, tailoring the plan to each person’s needs. Amanda offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Therapy is delivered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Approaches that guide online therapy
Amanda draws on Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as core ways to work together. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person’s perspective and building a respectful relationship. It helps people feel heard and supported while they identify what matters most to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns and manage anxiety or depression.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. These skills are useful for managing intense emotions, reducing reactive behavior, and improving communication. Choosing the right mix of methods is a collaborative process - the therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and tailor the plan over time based on what is and isn’t working.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy fit daily life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth or mobility is limited. Live chat and text messaging offer brief check-ins or ongoing written support between scheduled meetings. These options aim to make it easier to maintain regular work on stress, anxiety, and life changes while balancing other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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