About Amanda
Amanda Gragg offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and addictive behaviors. She is a licensed mental health counselor and a licensed professional counselor with 15 years of experience. Amanda focuses on helping people find steady ways to cope and move forward.
She listens for what matters most to each person and helps set simple, realistic goals. Sessions emphasize small, useful steps that can make daily life feel more manageable.
How Amanda works
Amanda draws on tools that help people change unhelpful thoughts and habits and build stronger self-care routines. Her work covers trauma and abuse, mood disorders such as bipolar, sleep disturbances, anger, and the impacts of major life changes. She also supports people dealing with body image, caregiver stress, communication problems, and addiction.
Amanda pays attention to how guilt, shame, isolation, and low self-esteem affect choices and relationships. Therapy often combines thought-focused techniques with mindfulness and motivational strategies. This mix helps clients notice patterns, try different behaviors, and stay motivated to change.
Sessions are practical and goal-oriented, with time spent on skill-building and real-world problem solving. Amanda provides sessions in English from Wisconsin. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling based on availability.
Amanda lists 4 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
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMHC, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
How Amanda's Approaches Work Online
Amanda uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy to help people change unhelpful thoughts and build steady coping habits. CBT involves identifying thought patterns that lead to stress or low mood and practicing different responses. Mindfulness Therapy centers on learning simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and improve focus.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Amanda will work with each person to match techniques to their goals and daily life. Together they will try strategies, track what helps, and adjust the plan based on what feels useful and doable.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexible options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a busy schedule or lower bandwidth situations. Live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or when a shorter, written exchange is preferred. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines while keeping the work focused and practical.
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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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