Amanda Whichard, LPC, LPC-MHSP

Amanda Whichard is a licensed professional counselor with six years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She works with people facing trauma, grief, and major life changes. Amanda emphasizes strengths and practical steps that make daily life more manageable. She believes each person knows their own story and brings useful strengths to therapy. Sessions focus on building skills people can use between meetings. Amanda aims to help clients make small changes that add up to clearer thinking and steadier moods. Her background includes work with people coping with relationship strain, family issues, career stress, and mood disorders such as depression and bipolar conditions. She also supports those dealing with ADHD, panic attacks, obsessions and compulsions, and compassion fatigue. Amanda uses approaches that are hands-on and skill oriented. She draws on cognitive behavioral methods to change unhelpful thinking patterns, dialectical behavior strategies for emotional regulation, and mindfulness practices to increase present-moment awareness. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is also part of her toolkit for trauma processing. Clients can expect a collaborative style where the therapist and client set goals together. Amanda offers encouragement and direct strategies rather than long lectures. The aim is to help people return to routine life with clearer tools for handling stress and setbacks.

How Amanda Uses Evidence-Based Approaches Online

CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that keep stress and anxiety going. It is practical and often involves homework to try new ways of thinking or acting between sessions.

Dialectical behavior therapy teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. Those skills can help when emotions feel intense or when communication breaks down in relationships.

EMDR, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, is a trauma-focused approach that helps people process distressing memories so they feel less disruptive in daily life.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Amanda will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. She adapts strategies based on how someone responds and the issues they bring to sessions.

Confirm current session options before booking since formats were not specified in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow brief check-ins when needed. It also makes it simpler to continue skill-building between meetings so people can practice tools in everyday situations.