About Amanda
Amanda Stokes is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and LGBTQ concerns. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through hard feelings and find practical steps forward. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping clients feel heard and understood.
Amanda draws on a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people focus on their values and take small, meaningful actions.
How Amanda works
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. Client-centered methods make room for the client's own pace and goals. Over five years of work have shaped Amanda's focus on grief, trauma and abuse, relationship strain, and issues around identity and sexuality.
She also supports people dealing with anger, low self-esteem, loneliness, and young adult concerns. Amanda pays attention to family of origin issues, codependency, and struggles with guilt or shame. Practical concerns like smoking or vaping cessation and coping with life changes are also part of her practice.
She listens for what matters most to each person and helps build usable skills for day-to-day life. Sessions aim to be collaborative and grounded in real outcomes. Amanda practices in Mississippi and offers services in English.
She combines evidence-informed techniques with a respectful, client-focused style to help people move toward more satisfying daily life.
Amanda lists 5 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
- Anger management
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Mississippi |
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Online support options
Approaches to online care and what they do
Amanda commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values even when emotions are intense. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors to change how someone feels.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Amanda will discuss goals and preferences and try strategies that fit the person's needs. She builds the plan collaboratively and adjusts methods as progress is made or priorities shift.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone works well when internet is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflections between meetings. These options help clients fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between sessions.
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