About Amanda
Amanda Leftridge is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and major life changes. She also supports clients coping with relationship and intimacy concerns, trauma and abuse, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and work or career strain. Amanda is LGBTQIA+ friendly and aims to treat everyone with respect and compassion.
Amanda focuses on practical skills and steady emotional support. Sessions often include talking through immediate problems and learning tools to manage mood, sleep, anger, and day-to-day stress.
How Amanda works
She blends short-term strategies with attention to underlying patterns to help people feel more in control. Her background includes three years as a clinician and two years working in a cancer center providing case management and mental health services to oncology patients and their loved ones.
That work included supporting people facing hospice, end-of-life decisions, chronic illness, and the strain caregiving can bring. Amanda has experience with HIV and first responder issues as well. In the therapy room Amanda uses a mix of approaches to match what each person needs.
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to address thoughts and behaviors, mindfulness to reduce reactivity, solution-focused ideas for short-term goals, and psychodynamic perspectives to look at deeper patterns. Motivational interviewing is used when people want help making changes. Amanda works from Missouri and meets with clients in English.
She accepts international clients and offers sessions in formats that fit busy lives, such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps connect someone to her practice.
Amanda lists 6 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
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- First responder issues
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online care
Amanda uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can ease anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Mindfulness Therapy is used to build awareness and calm, helping clients respond rather than react to stress and strong emotions. Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels stuck and wants support finding the motivation to make a change or follow through on goals.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Amanda works together with each person to identify what matters most and to test methods that fit their goals and preferences. She adapts the mix of techniques as therapy progresses so the plan stays focused and useful.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client work face to face when a deeper conversation is needed. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or visuals are not required. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins, quick skill coaching, and a way to stay connected between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy or changing schedules.
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