About Amanda
Amanda Jordan is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 27 years of experience helping people through stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and major life changes. She focuses on practical skills for coping, self-regulation, and rebuilding confidence. Amanda writes and talks plainly, so parents and busy adults can quickly understand what to expect in sessions.
Amanda uses conversational, collaborative sessions that break problems into manageable steps. She helps people learn tools they can use between meetings, such as emotion regulation and communication strategies.
How Amanda works
Sessions include straightforward goal-setting and practice of new habits. Her background spans many settings and types of challenges, including trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, adoption and foster care issues, and relationship struggles. She also addresses career stress, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related concerns, and intimacy-related issues.
Amanda tailors each plan to the person in front of her rather than using a single fixed method. Therapeutic methods include client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, mindfulness practices, and elements of the Gottman Method for relationship skills. Amanda emphasizes self-regulation as a first coping skill and blends approaches to match individual needs.
Sessions are meant to feel like focused conversations that leave people with clear next steps. Amanda encourages vulnerability and practical change, helping clients build resilience and steady progress 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 27 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Indiana |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Amanda commonly uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy to help people change unhelpful thoughts and build new habits. Client-centered work focuses on listening and shaping the plan around each person's needs, while cognitive behavioral techniques teach concrete ways to notice and reframe thought patterns to reduce anxiety and improve mood.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy ideas for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. These strategies offer clear, repeatable skills people can use when emotions feel overwhelming or when relationships become heated. Together these approaches support skill-building for stress, trauma, relationship struggles, and day-to-day coping.
Finding the best approach is part of the work. Amanda collaborates with each person to choose which methods to try first, adjusts plans based on progress, and combines techniques when that makes sense. The goal is a practical path that fits the client's goals and preferences.
Online sessions make regular work easier to fit into life. Video calls allow in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit brief check-ins or on-the-go support. These options offer flexibility so people can practice skills and stay consistent with appointments.
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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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