About Amanda
Amanda Dunn, MA, LPC, is a Licensed Professional Counselor based in Colorado with eight years of experience in mental health. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and related concerns. Amanda aims to create a warm, honest space where clients can talk about what matters most to them.
She uses a client-centered approach that puts the person's goals first. Amanda draws on practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help people change unhelpful thoughts and build new habits.
Background and approach
She also uses EMDR for people processing traumatic memories when that approach fits the situation. Amanda prefers a collaborative style. She works with each person to set clear, manageable goals and chooses methods that match those goals.
Sessions tend to be straightforward and focused on skills people can use between appointments. Her experience includes supporting people through life transitions, parenting challenges, relationship and intimacy concerns, and identity-related issues such as gender dysphoria. Amanda also addresses concerns like panic, phobias, sleep problems, compassion fatigue, and feelings of emptiness or isolation.
She is comfortable talking about nontraditional relationship structures, BDSM and kink culture, and communication problems in relationships. Amanda helps people explore values, improve communication, and reconnect with a sense of purpose. People meet Amanda for a mix of short-term skills work and longer-term exploration.
She encourages honest conversation and gradual steps toward change.
How Amanda's Approaches Translate to Online Care
Amanda uses client-centered therapy to prioritize each person's goals and preferences. This means the therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps people decide what to work on next; it works well for a wide range of concerns from life changes to relationship struggles.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, panic, phobias, mood concerns, and sleep problems because it gives concrete tools people can practice between sessions.
When trauma processing is needed, Amanda may use EMDR to help people work through distressing memories. EMDR sessions involve guided eye movements or other bilateral stimulation paired with memory processing and are used when the person and therapist agree it fits the work.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Amanda collaborates with clients to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made. She frames therapy as teamwork rather than a one-size-fits-all prescription.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill teaching and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing reflections between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different day-to-day situations.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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