About Amanda
Amanda Rowland is an experienced counsellor who uses evidence-based approaches to help people manage stress and anxiety. She is an AASW social worker with 28 years of practice in Australia. Amanda writes in a direct, respectful way and aims to tailor sessions to each person's needs.
Amanda helps people cope with grief and loss. She also supports those struggling with eating concerns and major life changes. Compassion fatigue is another area she understands well, and she offers practical ways to rebuild energy and balance.
Background and approach
Her style is to listen first and then plan a clear pathway forward. Conversations are practical and focused on what people can try between sessions. Goals are realistic and set together so progress is steady rather than rushed.
Amanda has worked across many related concerns, including attachment difficulties, body image, chronic illness and pain, and caregiver stress. She also has experience with issues such as abandonment, communication problems and commitment worries. Her experience covers a wide range of life stages and situations.
People who choose Amanda can expect collaborative sessions that respect their pace. She emphasises kindness and sensitivity while helping people build useful coping strategies. Amanda aims to empower people to make changes that fit their everyday life.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Amanda uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach helps people learn skills to manage anxiety and stress by breaking problems into small, manageable steps and rehearsing new responses. This method is useful for panic, phobias and everyday worry.Another useful approach focuses on grief and loss by creating space to name feelings and build routines that support coping. It aims to help people re-establish meaning and daily structure after significant change, and is gentle rather than rushed.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Amanda works collaboratively to decide what methods suit each person’s goals and preferences. She will check in and adjust plans as progress is made so the work fits the person's life.
Online sessions can be arranged as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is good for longer talks and visual cues, phone calls suit people who need lower bandwidth, live chat works for short check-ins, and messaging lets people write when convenient. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and travel, while keeping the focus on practical steps and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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