About Amanda
Amanda Dunlap is a Licensed Independent Social Worker with Clinical Practice (LISW-CP) who has ten years of clinical experience in South Carolina. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, work through addictions, and cope with grief and loss. Amanda approaches each person with respect for their story and their strengths.
Amanda believes the person in therapy knows their life best. She listens first, then helps people identify small, practical steps they can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Expect clear goals, straightforward feedback, and help turning ideas into habits that fit everyday life. Her work includes support around depression, relationship and family concerns, intimacy-related issues, and self-esteem. She also assists people navigating bipolar symptoms and major life changes.
Additional areas she addresses include aging and geriatric concerns, attachment difficulties, blended family issues, cancer-related stress, caregiver strain, and fertility or parenting challenges. Amanda is comfortable addressing LGBTQ matters, gender dysphoria, and questions related to BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture. She also helps people facing codependency, communication problems, dissociation, and separation or divorce.
Sessions emphasize practical approaches grounded in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Amanda aims to make sessions useful and understandable, helping people try small changes and notice what helps. Her tone is supportive and direct, geared toward people who want clear, manageable steps toward feeling better.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online therapy
Amanda uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and trying new ways of responding. CBT is practical and problem-focused, and it can help with anxiety, depression, phobias, and stress by teaching skills that people can practice between sessions.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Amanda works with each person to figure out which methods fit their needs and goals. She checks in regularly and adjusts strategies based on what is helping and what is not, so the plan evolves from session to session.
Online therapy offers flexibility that can make getting help easier. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick updates, brief coaching, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep continuity during life changes.
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What this therapist works with
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- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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