About Amanda
Amanda Hager is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey. She brings eight years of clinical experience and prefers an active, collaborative style. Amanda focuses on the whole person and pays attention to the life experiences that shape emotional struggles.
Her work centers on helping people manage anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and addiction-related issues. She also supports people dealing with body image, eating or food-related problems, ADHD, and caregiver stress.
How Amanda works
Sessions aim to identify strengths people already have and use them to build more stable coping strategies. Amanda pays attention to how culture, community, family stories, and social systems influence feelings and behavior. She avoids treating someone as a list of symptoms and instead looks at patterns in their life story.
That perspective often helps with self-esteem, communication problems, and complex family of origin issues. Her approach is practical and adaptable. She uses conversational methods that help people reframe difficult experiences, find workable steps forward, and set focused goals.
Therapy can include talking through painful events, addressing intimacy-related worries, or making short-term plans for change. People choosing Amanda can expect a straightforward, nonjudgmental setting. She aims to make space for topics clients may not feel safe bringing up elsewhere.
The work is collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
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.
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace 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 | New Jersey |
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Online support options
How Amanda's Approaches Work Online
Amanda uses client-centered work that focuses on listening closely and responding to each person's needs. This approach helps people feel heard, clarify priorities, and choose steps that fit their life circumstances.She also draws on narrative therapy to help people look at the stories they tell about themselves. Reframing personal narratives can ease shame, guilt, and identity-related struggles and open up new ways to act and relate to others.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Amanda will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and adjust methods as needed. The process is collaborative and aims to find what helps most in weekly sessions.
Online therapy offers practical benefits like flexible scheduling and easier access from different places. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging work well for short check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the focus on progress and problem solving.
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A practical next step
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