About Amanda
Amanda Whichard is a licensed professional counselor with six years of experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and grief. She listens with care and helps clients take practical steps toward feeling better.
Her work focuses on real-life problems like coping with loss, big life changes, and recurring worry or panic. Amanda emphasizes that each person knows their own story best. She supports people in finding strengths they already have and putting those strengths to use.
Background and approach
Amanda draws on several well-known therapy approaches to match the needs of each person. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns. She brings in Mindfulness skills to help people manage stress in the moment.
She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy strategies for emotion regulation and interpersonal challenges. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is part of her work with trauma and painful memories when appropriate. Motivational Interviewing is used to build clients' confidence to make changes.
Clients can expect a respectful, practical style. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, achievable steps. Amanda practices in Mississippi and holds MS LPC and TN LPC-MHSP credentials.
How Amanda Uses Therapy Approaches Online
Amanda commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and EMDR alongside mindfulness in her online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical actions to reduce anxiety and change behavior. EMDR helps people process traumatic memories and reduce the power those memories hold over daily life. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce stress in the moment and improve emotional focus.Finding the best approach is a team effort. Amanda talks with each person about goals, past experiences, and what feels most useful. Together they choose techniques and adjust them over time so the work fits the person's needs and pace.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people work face-to-face when helpful. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a good option for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging allow for written check-ins and ongoing reminders between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi, Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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