- Warm nonjudgmental care
- Practical coping skills
- Focus on self compassion
About Amanda
Amanda Perkins is a Florida licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship challenges. She focuses on practical steps people can use day to day. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental and she aims to help people build self-compassion and clearer communication.
Amanda offers straightforward support for trauma and abuse, parenting strain, chronic illness, and career stress. She also helps people work through codependency, attachment concerns, and issues that affect intimacy. Sessions aim to identify what matters to the client and create manageable steps toward change.
Her work draws on several evidence-informed approaches to match what each person needs. She listens for patterns that keep someone stuck and teaches tools to respond differently. Therapy sessions often include skill practice, values clarification, and gradual exposure to difficult feelings.
With ten years of clinical experience, Amanda brings steady guidance to life transitions and complex emotional problems. She emphasizes practical coping strategies that can be used between sessions. The goal is to leave people feeling more capable of handling everyday stressors.
Amanda encourages clients to notice their strengths and take small, sustainable steps toward healthier routines. She supports people as they reframe limiting beliefs and strengthen relationships with themselves and others.
Approaches that shape online sessions
Amanda often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts, clarify what matters to them, and take committed steps toward those values. This approach can help with anxiety, depression, codependency, and life transitions.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships influence current patterns. This work can be useful for people dealing with intimacy issues, abandonment concerns, or communication problems within close relationships.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Amanda will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful. Together they adjust methods and tools so the work fits the person's needs and day-to-day life.
For practical matters, confirm current session options before booking since formats were not specified in the biography. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, or avoid the need to travel. Licensed professionals can use video or phone for different kinds of work, and Amanda will discuss which arrangement best supports the client's goals during intake.
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Experience
10+ years
Credentials
Florida
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does this therapist help with?
Amanda works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting strain, and related concerns such as codependency, ADHD, depression, and career stress.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach is compassionate and client-centered. She emphasizes clear communication, skill practice, and values-based goals to help people make gradual changes.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has ten years of experience working with a range of emotional and life challenges.
Where is the therapist licensed and based?
She is a Florida LMHC and practices in Florida.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with this therapist?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How does payment work and what does therapy cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Amanda?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's listed availability.
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