About Amanda
Amanda Grant is a licensed clinical social worker with 14 years of experience helping people navigate relationship and trauma-related concerns. She practices in New York and focuses on making therapy approachable for people at different life stages. Amanda aims to create a calm space where people can talk about hard things and consider practical next steps.
She has held roles as a staff clinician, supervisor, therapist, and administrator across multiple settings.
How Amanda works
Those experiences inform how she structures sessions and supports people through change. Her background includes work with attachment issues and the long-term effects of early trauma. Amanda often focuses on intimacy, sexuality and self, and parenting challenges.
She also supports people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, blended family tensions, and body image concerns. Her practice addresses co-morbidity, codependency, commitment and communication problems, and stress related to caregiving. She regularly works with issues linked to emotional or behavioral disabilities, including matters related to Autism and Asperger Syndrome and Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD).
Amanda also has experience with domestic violence and separation or divorce struggles. Sessions aim to be collaborative and goal-oriented, with attention to what each person needs most in the moment. Amanda emphasizes ongoing learning and adapts her approach as people’s needs change.
She offers multiple online session formats and helps people figure out practical steps to move forward.
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.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Amanda draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on attachment work and trauma-informed care. Attachment-focused approaches help people understand patterns in close relationships and build new ways of relating. Trauma-informed methods pay attention to how past abuse or early experiences shape feelings and reactions, and they include step-by-step ways to reduce overwhelm and increase stability.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Amanda partners with each person to identify goals, test what helps, and adjust methods based on progress and preference. This collaborative process means techniques change if something isn’t working or if new needs emerge.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and shared visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief touchpoints between appointments and can fit into busy days without a full session commitment.
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