- Practical coping skills
- LGBT affirming care
- Addiction support
About Amanda
Amanda Buchanan is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and trauma. She works with individuals who are navigating sexuality, LGBT concerns, and complicated relationship patterns such as codependency. Her tone is direct and compassionate, and she aims to make therapy feel practical and approachable.
Amanda creates a calm space for people to talk through painful experiences and figure out what matters most to them. She listens for patterns that keep clients stuck and helps them try small changes that make daily life easier. Sessions focus on real-world skills rather than long lectures or jargon.
Her background includes steady experience supporting people through substance use issues, panic and social anxiety, post-traumatic stress, and family of origin concerns. She also works with people who identify with alternative sexual cultures, those exploring gender dysphoria, and caregivers facing chronic stress. Amanda draws on methods that teach coping skills and build motivation for change.
In her work she blends practical strategies with attention to identity and lived experience. Clients can expect clear goals, steps to practice between sessions, and flexibility about pacing. Amanda emphasizes collaboration so each person shapes the direction of therapy.
She practices in Kentucky and offers services in English. Prospective clients who want to begin are asked to use the site's Start Therapy process to match and schedule a first session.
How Amanda Uses Practical Therapies Online
Amanda works with approaches that teach concrete skills and build motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, focuses on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills for intense feelings and crises. Motivational Interviewing helps people clarify what they want to change and strengthens their own reasons for doing so.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Amanda collaborates with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and day-to-day life. She checks in and adjusts methods as progress or obstacles appear, so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Confirm the specific session options before booking so you know what formats are currently offered. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, or avoid travel time. Licensed professionals can use these approaches effectively at a distance, and Amanda helps clients translate skills into their everyday routines.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
15+ years
Credentials
Kentucky, Tennessee, Oregon
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Amanda commonly address?
She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and addictions, plus related issues such as codependency, social anxiety, and panic attacks.
What is Amanda's therapeutic style?
Her style is practical and collaborative, focusing on clear goals, skill building, and steps people can try between sessions.
How long has she been practicing?
Amanda has 15 years of experience working with clients on a range of emotional and behavioral concerns.
What credentials and location apply to her practice?
She is an LCSW and practices in Kentucky, holding the credential designations OR LCSW and TN LCSW as listed.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and she can work with international clients as noted.
What session formats are available?
Confirm current session options before booking to learn whether phone or video sessions are offered for a particular appointment.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin a first session?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.
Profile details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. Credential and registration rules differ between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.