About Amanda
Amanda Perkins focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or big life changes. She meets each person where they are and uses practical tools to ease daily struggles. Amanda is a Florida licensed mental health counselor, LMHC, with ten years of experience supporting emotional recovery and growth.
Amanda builds a calm, nonjudgmental space for people to talk through what matters most. Sessions emphasize simple, usable skills that can be tried between meetings.
How Amanda works
She often helps with mood concerns such as depression and bipolar symptoms, and with burnout, compassion fatigue, and career pressure. Many come for help with relationship patterns, intimacy-related issues, communication problems, or parenting stresses. Amanda also works with trauma and abuse, attachment concerns, and challenges connected to adoption and foster care.
She addresses health-related struggles including chronic pain, illness, and caregiver stress. The work blends practical strategies and understanding of personal history. Amanda draws on approaches that help clarify values, change unhelpful thinking, and build emotional regulation skills.
Clients can expect steady collaboration and clear goals during therapy. Sessions are offered in English and are arranged to fit schedules. Amanda helps people explore options, set realistic steps, and build more resilience.
Her aim is to leave people feeling better equipped to handle life’s demands and more connected to their own strengths.
Amanda lists 16 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic 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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How Amanda’s Approaches Work Online
Amanda often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small committed steps toward them while learning to accept difficult feelings. ACT can help when people feel stuck by worry, grief, or life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thoughts and patterns and teaches practical strategies to change them, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Amanda works together with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and day-to-day life. That collaborative decision can change over time as progress is made and priorities shift.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, or health needs. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging suit quick updates or ongoing support between sessions. These options help therapy fit into busy schedules and varied routines.
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