About Amanda
Amanda Omar is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Indiana with ten years of practice. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction concerns, and struggles with self-esteem and relationships. Her style is direct and compassionate, aiming to pair insight with practical steps.
She favors a collaborative and structured approach. Sessions focus on spotting unhelpful patterns, learning emotion regulation skills, and building plans that fit daily life. Amanda balances candid conversations with steady support so people can try new ways of coping without feeling judged.
How Amanda works
Amanda uses several well-known methods to guide sessions. She incorporates client-centered ideas to follow each person's priorities, cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge thinking and behavior, and dialectical behavior strategies for managing intense emotions. She also draws on emotionally-focused and Gottman-informed ideas when relationship issues are part of the work.
Her experience includes helping people dealing with compassion fatigue, parenting stress, career challenges, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and complex trauma. Amanda has worked with situations related to abandonment, adoption and foster care, caregiving burdens, chronic illness, codependency, and domestic violence. She brings a practical focus to messy, real-life problems.
Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Getting started involves completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first appointment based on therapist availability.
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Indiana |
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Online support options
Online approaches for emotion and behavior change
Amanda draws from client-centered practice to keep the focus on each person's goals and priorities. That approach means sessions follow what matters most to the client and build on their strengths. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence mood and teaches practical skills to change them.Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques are part of the toolkit for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance. Those skills help when people feel overwhelmed, act impulsively, or struggle with crisis moments. Amanda discusses options and tailors the mix of approaches so the plan fits the client's needs and preferences; figuring out the right approach is a collaborative process rather than a one-size-fits-all decision.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video works well when visual cues and a fuller conversation help. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or text messaging can suit quick updates, brief coaching, or when writing feels more comfortable. These options let people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep continuity of care across life changes.
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