About Mandy
Mandy Knight is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and everyday parenting struggles. She speaks plainly and focuses on real goals families can understand. Her approach aims to reduce immediate worry and build skills for long-term coping.
She earned a Master of Social Work from the University of Oklahoma and holds LCSW licenses in Oklahoma and Montana. Mandy has worked since 2014 across juvenile detention, residential behavioral treatment, child welfare, medical social work, partial hospitalization programs, and outpatient counseling.
Background and approach
Those roles gave her experience with trauma, depression, ADHD, and a range of parenting and family issues. In sessions she uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety and panic. She also draws on client-centered and solution-focused methods to shape practical steps clients can try between visits.
Those methods are mixed with narrative and psychodynamic ideas when helpful to understand patterns and relationships. Mandy emphasizes starting where a person is and working toward what they want to change. She often helps parents and young adults sort competing priorities, rebuild confidence, and set manageable goals.
She also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care concerns, blended family challenges, and caregiver stress. Her background across many settings gives her a range of tools to pull from. Mandy aims to make therapy straightforward and useful so people can feel more in control and handle life changes with clearer skills.
How therapy approaches fit into online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to a person. The therapist provides empathy and helps clients identify their own goals and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, gives clear tools to change thought patterns and behaviors that keep anxiety and panic going, which can be practiced between sessions. Motivational Interviewing helps people find motivation for change when they feel stuck, by exploring ambivalence and building confidence.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Mandy will work with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences. She may combine approaches and adjust the plan as progress is made so clients feel their treatment fits their life.
Online therapy offers flexibility and easier scheduling. Video calls let people see facial cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, short reflections, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it simpler to keep momentum and use skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma, Montana
- Languages
- English
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