About Amanda
Amanda Perkins is a Florida-based licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing anxiety, stress, grief, and relationship strain. She focuses on clear, practical support for common emotional struggles, including trauma, self-esteem, parenting concerns, and ADHD-related challenges. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at making therapy feel manageable for busy people.
Amanda spends sessions listening closely and helping clients name what matters most to them. She uses simple exercises and conversation to identify patterns that get in the way.
Background and approach
The goal is to build small, useful skills that fit into everyday life rather than relying on jargon or long homework lists. Her work draws on several evidence-based approaches, chosen to match each person's needs. That can mean learning new thinking strategies, practicing emotion regulation, or exploring attachment patterns that affect relationships.
She describes therapy as a collaborative process where goals are set together. Amanda has ten years of clinical experience as an LMHC in Florida. Over that time she has supported people through life transitions, chronic health concerns, caregiving stress, career changes, and the long-term effects of trauma.
She also addresses issues around sexual orientation and identity with respect and understanding. Sessions often focus on practical next steps - how to communicate more clearly, create healthier boundaries, or reduce daily anxiety. Amanda aims to help people notice progress early and build momentum toward longer-term change.
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Amanda commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in her practice. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical exercises to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Acceptance and commitment therapy emphasizes noticing difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that align with personal values, which can help with stress and coping with life changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amanda will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and they will choose or combine approaches together. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to what feels useful and realistic for day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when internet bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can be used for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and maintain momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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