About Amanda
Amanda Sholty greets readers with a calm, practical approach to common struggles. She helps people manage stress and anxiety, navigate relationship and intimacy concerns, and cope with life changes. Amanda also supports those facing grief, addiction, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and issues with self-esteem.
Amanda is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, with six years of clinical experience. She has worked in community behavioral health, domestic violence services, healthcare settings, and with veterans.
How Amanda works
She has also supported caregivers for people living with dementia. Her style is person-centered and strengths-based. She centers what matters most to each person and treats them as the expert on their own life.
Sessions focus on practical steps, clear goals, and steady progress at a comfortable pace. Amanda draws on several approaches to match what a person needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people accept difficult thoughts while committing to values-based action.
She borrows tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify thinking patterns that keep problems going. Attachment-based ideas inform work on relationship patterns and connection. People can expect a collaborative relationship in which the therapist and client set priorities together.
Amanda often works on building coping skills, improving communication, managing anger, and strengthening boundaries. Her background across settings brings a broad view to each person’s situation.
Amanda lists 10 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- 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
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with practical experiments or behavior changes, which often helps with anxiety, depression, and coping skills. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns appear in current connections and helps people build healthier ways of relating and communicating.Choosing the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will listen to priorities, try different strategies, and adjust plans based on what helps. Sessions are collaborative and paced to match a client's goals and comfort level.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and messaging supports short reflections or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or mobility limitations while keeping focus on practical progress.
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A practical next step
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