About Amanda
Amanda Carter is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Georgia. She uses a client-centered stance to create a respectful, down-to-earth space where people can talk about what feels overwhelming. Amanda combines that approach with practical tools to address daily struggles and big life events.
With 16 years of experience, Amanda helps people facing grief, trauma, and addictions, including process addictions such as pornography. She also supports those dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, and low self-esteem.
How Amanda works
Amanda addresses life transitions, career questions, and the strain that can come from caregiving or compassion fatigue. Her work includes attention to medical and situational challenges. She supports people coping with cancer, chronic pain, illness, and disability.
She also works with immigration-related concerns, hospice and end-of-life needs, and survivors of natural or human-caused disasters. Amanda blends Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and she uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing when trauma processing is needed. Sessions focus on clear goals, practical skills, and understanding patterns that keep problems active.
People who meet with Amanda can expect straightforward conversations and collaborative planning. She offers a mix of short-term skill building and longer-term work, depending on each person’s needs and pace. The tone is calm, respectful, and focused on helping people find workable next steps.
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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
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
How Amanda's Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. The therapist follows the person's lead and helps them set goals that matter. This approach is useful when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to talk and make sense of things.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions affect mood. Sessions include simple, practical strategies to change unhelpful thinking and build healthier routines. CBT often helps with anxiety, depression, stress, and managing cravings related to addictions.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a method used when traumatic memories cause ongoing distress. It combines focused attention with structured processing to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and their emotional impact.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Amanda will discuss options and tailor methods based on a person's goals, history, and comfort level. That collaborative process helps decide whether to emphasize skills training, trauma work, or supportive listening.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, quicker problem-solving, or ongoing support between sessions.
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