About Amanda
Amanda Reid is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in South Carolina who focuses on practical, day-to-day help. She uses hands-on methods to reduce stress and anxiety and to address addictions, trauma, depression, ADHD, and parenting challenges. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people find clearer coping strategies and steadier routines.
Amanda has eight years of clinical experience working across outpatient settings. She combines Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools to create short-term goals and doable plans.
How Amanda works
Sessions often focus on building coping skills, learning grounding techniques, and reshaping unhelpful thought patterns. Her background includes work in substance abuse treatment, group homes, and mental health hospital settings. That experience informs a direct approach when safety, emotional regulation, and relapse prevention are needed.
She also supports people managing chronic illness, caregiver stress, body image concerns, and the challenges that follow divorce or separation. Amanda pays attention to relationship patterns such as attachment, abandonment, blended family stress, and communication problems. She also helps people facing life transitions like adoption or foster care adjustments, cancer, and major health changes.
Therapy sessions aim to increase self-esteem, manage anger, and improve day-to-day functioning. She offers sessions in English and provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. New clients start by completing a short questionnaire and scheduling a first appointment that fits with the therapist's availability.
Amanda lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Amanda works with
The areas below are the ones Amanda selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | South Carolina |
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Online support options
Combining practical therapy methods for online care
Amanda uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a supportive, nonjudgmental environment where people can speak freely and set their own pace. This approach helps when someone needs acceptance, validation, and help finding personal solutions.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and mood regulation because it breaks problems into clear, manageable steps.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills are included when emotional regulation and distress tolerance are priorities. DBT provides concrete techniques for managing strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Sessions often mix techniques and adjust over time as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical benefits such as flexible scheduling and options to suit different days and energy levels. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is helpful for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports shorter reflections between sessions. These formats help fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the focus on skill building and steady progress.
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