About Amanda
Amanda Dunlap is a licensed social worker in South Carolina with 10 years of clinical experience. She uses a straightforward style and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, and depression. Amanda believes people know their own stories and brings support as they work toward clearer, more manageable days.
She centers sessions on practical steps and realistic goals. Many conversations include ways to change unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors between meetings.
How Amanda works
Sessions move at a pace set by the person seeking help, with attention to strengths and small wins. Amanda has worked with issues that affect identity and relationships, including LGBT concerns, intimacy-related struggles, and gender dysphoria. She also addresses parenting challenges, blended family dynamics, caregiving stress, and life transitions like divorce or serious illness.
Her background includes supporting people facing attachment concerns, codependency, and dissociation. The therapist uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focusing on how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. Amanda often teaches concrete skills to manage mood, reduce anxiety, and handle cravings or urges.
She helps people build routines and coping tools that fit everyday life. Amanda aims for a collaborative approach. She listens, names practical steps, and checks in on what works.
Her goal is to help people feel more capable and less overwhelmed as they make changes. Clients can expect clear, down-to-earth conversations and homework that is doable. Amanda emphasizes steady progress over quick fixes and supports clients as they try new strategies.
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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
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LISW-CP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | South Carolina |
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Online support options
How Amanda Uses CBT Online
Amanda works primarily with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns, test them, and try different behaviors to reduce anxiety or depression and to cope with cravings or urges.The choice of approach is a collaborative process. Amanda reviews goals and preferences with each person and adjusts methods based on how someone responds. Together they decide whether to focus on thought patterns, behavioral experiments, or practical coping skills as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls work well for deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins, skill reminders, or people who prefer typing to speaking.
These formats make scheduling more flexible and let people fit therapy into busy lives. Amanda uses the available session types to keep momentum between appointments and to practice new skills in real time, wherever the person is located within the therapist's service area.
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