About Amanda
Amanda Fisher is a licensed clinical mental health counselor practicing in North Carolina. She focuses on helping people who are stressed, anxious, grieving, or facing relationship and parenting challenges. Amanda aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can speak honestly about what’s hard.
She wants to partner with clients who are ready to make changes and learn new coping skills. She draws on ten years of experience across community and residential settings.
How Amanda works
That work included individual and group counseling, crisis response, intake screenings, and supporting people through grief and trauma. Amanda has worked in faith-based clinics and in programs connected to military communities, where she supported people affected by deployment and PTSD. Her approach adapts to each person’s needs.
She uses client-centered listening alongside cognitive and narrative tools to help people reframe unhelpful thoughts and make small, practical changes. Trauma-focused methods guide work when past harm is central to current struggles. Amanda also has experience facilitating parenting and co-parenting education and leading therapeutic groups.
She aims to help clients rebuild communication, address commitment and intimacy issues, and manage compassion fatigue. Amanda respects each person’s values and works collaboratively to set clear, achievable goals. Sessions are offered via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Amanda communicates in English and holds an NC LCMHC credential.
Amanda lists 5 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Amanda often combines client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns. Client-centered work focuses on empathetic listening and collaboration to clarify goals and priorities. CBT offers straightforward tools to test beliefs and try new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress.She also uses trauma-focused and narrative methods when past events affect daily life. Trauma-focused work aims to reduce the hold of painful memories and build coping skills for triggers. Narrative therapy helps people separate themselves from their problems and rewrite the stories that keep them stuck. Amanda treats the choice of method as a conversation and will help clients decide what feels most useful for their situation and goals.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for in-depth work and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and messaging can be used for brief support, homework prompts, or when typing feels easier. These options make scheduling more flexible for people juggling parenting, work, or busy days.
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