About Amanda
Amanda Mills is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and addiction concerns. She listens without judgment and helps clients clarify what matters to them. Sessions aim to be straightforward and practical so people can start making small changes right away.
With eight years of clinical practice, Amanda draws on several therapy styles to match each person's needs. She blends acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive tools to address negative thinking and build values-based action.
How Amanda works
She also uses attachment-informed thinking to look at relationship patterns and how past connections shape present behavior. Amanda has experience across inpatient care, intensive outpatient treatment, outpatient groups, and independent practice. That background informs her work with people facing mood disorders, grief, trauma and abuse, and complex substance concerns.
She also supports those dealing with career stress, compassion fatigue, and identity questions including LGBT issues. Her goal is to work collaboratively to set clear, achievable steps. Amanda explains options in plain language and helps people choose skills that fit their daily life.
Progress is tracked with small goals and regular check-ins so clients notice what helps. Clients who prefer different ways to connect can use video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sessions operate on a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, with scheduling done around therapist availability.
Amanda lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
How Amanda’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Amanda uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then choose actions that match their values. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions because it focuses on practical movement toward what matters.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with clearer, more useful ways of thinking. CBT is often paired with skills practice for anxiety, mood symptoms, and coping with stress. Attachment-Based Therapy informs work around relationship patterns by looking at how early connections influence current intimacy and communication problems.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Amanda works collaboratively with each person to pick methods that fit their goals and preferences, and she adjusts strategies over time based on what helps most. Clients are invited to give feedback so sessions remain focused and useful.
Online therapy offers practical options to fit busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and skill demonstrations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or mobility is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging support quick check-ins and ongoing coaching between sessions. These formats make it simpler to keep momentum and practice skills in real time.
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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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