About Amanda
Amanda Norah-Brooks is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Virginia with 20 years in the mental health field. She focuses on practical help for people facing family conflict, parenting strain, anger, and big life changes. Her style is straightforward and supportive.
She works with people who struggle with attention and concentration challenges, grief and loss, and behavior concerns. Amanda uses clear, evidence-based techniques to help clients build skills and make day-to-day changes.
How Amanda works
Sessions aim to be useful and easy to apply between meetings. Her approach treats the person, not just the problem. She helps people identify strengths, set realistic goals, and try small steps that can add up to real change.
Amanda talks through concrete strategies for communication, coping, and managing impulses. Past work includes supporting people through divorce and separation, blended family issues, and caregiving at the end of life. She also brings experience with trauma, sexual assault and abuse, domestic violence, immigration concerns, and veteran and armed forces issues.
These experiences inform practical ways to handle crisis and recovery. Amanda emphasizes skill building around communication, forgiveness, and problem solving. She supports parents dealing with fatherhood issues, behavior management, and parent education.
The goal is to leave sessions with clear next steps and tools to use at home. People who prefer direct guidance and collaborative goal-setting tend to fit well with her style. She offers sessions in English and practices throughout Virginia.
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.
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Multicultural concerns
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
Evidence-based care and online access
Amanda uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach emphasizes skill building for emotion and impulse management, teaching tools to handle anger, impulsivity, and attention challenges in daily life. Another approach centers on communication and problem-solving skills to reduce family conflict and improve parenting interactions. These methods help people try small, concrete steps between sessions and track what works.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Amanda will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video sessions let people use face-to-face interaction when helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Chat and messaging are useful for brief updates, written reflections, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while working with a licensed professional from Virginia.
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