About Amanda
Amanda Garcia greets visitors with a calm, straightforward presence. She is an Arizona-based licensed clinical social worker with ten years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, parenting strain, and ADHD. Her style is down-to-earth and nonjudgmental, aimed at practical steps people can use between sessions.
Amanda uses a strengths-based, individualized approach rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. She listens for what matters most to each person and works with them to set realistic goals.
How Amanda works
Her work often addresses trauma, abandonment and attachment struggles, adoption and foster care issues, and the fallout from emotional or physical abuse. She combines several methods depending on the concern, drawing on client-centered techniques, cognitive behavior strategies, dialectical behavior tools, and emotionally-focused ideas when they fit. Amanda also brings existential perspectives for people wrestling with meaning, emptiness, or big life changes.
The result is a collaborative plan shaped around each person’s needs. Amanda trained at Arizona State University and advanced to the Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, holding an Arizona LCSW. Over a decade she has worked in varied settings and with a broad range of concerns, including caregiver stress, communication problems, codependency, dissociation, and mood challenges like DMDD.
If someone is in Arizona and wants to begin, she guides them through scheduling and the initial steps. Sessions are practical and focused on coping tools, clearer communication, and small changes that add up over time.
Amanda lists 11 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
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arizona |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Amanda often uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on understanding each person without judgment and building goals from their own values. This approach helps when someone needs a respectful space to talk and sort out feelings.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it gives clear tools people can practice between sessions.
Dialectical behavior therapy skills are another part of her toolkit, offering practical techniques for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication. Those tools can help when emotions feel overwhelming or relationships are strained.
Finding the right approach is a joint process. Amanda works with each person to try methods that match their goals and preferences, and she adjusts the plan based on what helps most. The aim is to pick strategies that feel useful and doable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and fuller conversation, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed, live chat suits quick exchanges, and text messaging supports ongoing check-ins between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between sessions.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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