- LGBT affirmative
- Focus on families
- Goal oriented
About Amanda
She brings 17 years of clinical experience as an LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Her work emphasizes collaboration: the client’s knowledge of their life is central. Sessions focus on identifying strengths, improving communication, and setting short-term goals to reduce stress and restore daily functioning.
Her practice commonly addresses mood concerns such as depression and bipolar symptoms, as well as anxiety, grief, and trauma. She also helps people with relationship and family issues, parenting strains, sexuality and gender questions, and problems with self-esteem and anger. The approach is flexible to match the concern, whether the need is big-picture change or focused problem-solving.
Therapeutic methods include client-centered work that centers the person’s experience, emotionally-focused techniques to address attachment and closeness, solution-focused strategies for practical steps, and systemic ideas that look at relationship patterns. Together these methods guide clear, doable plans for coping and recovery.
Dr. Amanda practiced in Florida and holds a PhD in Family Relations and an MS in Marriage and Family Therapy. She now lists Oregon as her location and conducts work in English. People who want to begin will complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session based on availability.
This summary is based on the profile information listed on BetterHelp.