About Amanda
Amanda Dunn is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Colorado. She brings eight years of experience in mental health to her work and focuses on helping people facing anxiety, stress, depression, and trauma. Amanda aims to create a calm, straightforward space where clients can talk through their concerns without jargon.
Amanda's approach is client-centered and collaborative. She uses a mix of methods that are chosen to fit each person’s needs, often drawing on cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness practices alongside other tools.
How Amanda works
Sessions are practical and goal-focused, with attention to what is happening day to day. She has experience supporting people navigating parenting challenges, sleep problems, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, and compassion fatigue. Amanda also works with people exploring gender dysphoria, sexual identity, and alternative sex cultures including BDSM and kink.
She addresses both long-term mood concerns and shorter-term crises like panic attacks or responses to natural and human-caused disasters. In sessions Amanda listens for patterns that keep problems going and coaches simple skills to change them. She helps people break big problems into small steps and build routines that reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Her style is warm and direct, focused on what a person wants to change now. To begin, she asks clients for their goals and together they set a clear plan. Amanda values honesty and practical progress, and she partners with each person to find approaches that fit their life and values.
Amanda lists 7 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
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's 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 | Colorado |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Amanda commonly uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. Client-centered work focuses on listening carefully and shaping sessions around what the client needs in the moment, which helps people clarify goals and feel heard. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical techniques to reduce anxiety and improve mood.She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for processing trauma when it is appropriate. EMDR involves targeted exercises and guided processing to help reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and related reactions. That approach is chosen carefully and used with clear planning and pacing.
Finding the right method is collaborative. Amanda will talk with each person about their history, symptoms, and what they hope to change. Together they decide which approaches to try and adjust the plan based on how a person responds over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit sessions into busy schedules. Video calls work well for in-depth conversation and guided exercises, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging lets people check in between sessions or have shorter touchpoints. These options make it easier to build therapy into daily life while working with a licensed professional.
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