About Mandy
Mandy Dalrymple is a Licensed Master Social Worker and Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with 25 years in social work and clinical practice. She focuses on building rapport first and uses a calm, direct style to help people manage anxiety, depression, stress, and relationship challenges. Mandy explains things plainly and aims for practical steps that fit daily life.
Her background includes work in foster care, adoption services, hospice, community mental health, inpatient psychiatric and detox settings, and personal counseling.
Background and approach
That range informs a flexible approach to issues such as trauma, grief, addiction, and chronic illness. She draws on experience with mood disorders, ADHD, and personality-related concerns without promising specific outcomes. Mandy uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs.
Sessions tend to focus on coping skills, problem solving, and creating goals that feel achievable. She listens actively and keeps the tone nonjudgmental so people can speak honestly about difficult topics. Many clients find her helpful when dealing with parenting stress, work and career pressures, intimacy or communication problems, and major life changes.
She also supports people facing compassion fatigue and caregiver strain by identifying small, realistic changes that reduce burnout. Outside of work Mandy enjoys time with her family and a pet pug, photography, reading, and music. She prefers straightforward collaboration and aims to make the therapy process clear and manageable from the first session.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, encourages people to notice difficult thoughts and emotions without getting stuck in them, then take actions that align with personal values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and stress by shifting the focus toward meaningful goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It teaches concrete strategies to change unhelpful thinking patterns and build new habits for sleep, mood, and relationships.
Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person's experience, with the therapist offering empathic listening and support so someone can explore concerns and set their own direction.
Mandy treats choosing an approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and how they respond to different tools, then tailor sessions accordingly. That collaborative process helps pick strategies that feel doable and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules. Video is useful for fuller conversations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging supports quick check-ins or brief coaching between appointments. These options make it simpler to maintain regular contact and try new skills in day-to-day life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- 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
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Massachusetts, Colorado
- Languages
- English
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