About Amanda
Amanda Marcum is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who practices in Indiana. She has 18 years of clinical experience and uses a warm, open approach to help people facing anxiety, depression, stress, grief, addictions, and relationship concerns. Amanda emphasizes the importance of connection and feeling comfortable with a therapist when sharing difficult experiences.
Amanda earned a Master of Social Work degree with a focus on children and families from Indiana University in 2007.
Background and approach
Her career has included work with adolescents and adults in a range of settings. That background gives her familiarity with trauma and abuse, LGBT stressors, parenting challenges, and complicated family dynamics. In sessions she leans on client-centered methods and evidence-based tools to address thoughts, behaviors, and coping skills.
She also draws on cognitive behavioral strategies and mindfulness practices to help people reduce distress and build new habits. Sessions can include problem-solving, skills practice, and checking in on progress between conversations. Amanda works with concerns that often come up alongside other issues, such as ADHD, bipolar symptoms, caregiver stress, substance use, and difficulties with communication or commitment.
She also lists work around abandonment, adoption and foster care, blended family issues, and divorce or separation. Her online practice offers messaging, live chat, phone calls, and video sessions. Amanda typically checks messages three times a day and has primary availability weekdays from 8 to 5.
She encourages people to reach out and begin with a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling step to find the right fit.
Approaches for online sessions that focus on skills and connection
Amanda uses client-centered work to create a respectful, listening-based relationship where people can speak honestly and feel heard. This approach helps when someone needs simple, steady support while sorting through emotions or relationship concerns.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence feelings. CBT is useful for anxiety, phobias, depression, and daily coping skills because it teaches concrete strategies to test and change unhelpful patterns.
Mindfulness practices are included to help people notice thoughts and bodily reactions without getting swept up by them. These techniques can reduce stress reactivity and improve focus for people dealing with trauma, grief, or ongoing anxiety.
Finding the best approach is part of the work together. Amanda will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past. She treats the choice of methods as a collaborative decision and adjusts the plan based on progress and feedback.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video supports full conversation and visual cues, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a focused check-in, and messaging allows frequent, shorter exchanges between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or school schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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