About Amanda
Amanda Taylor helps people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, career struggles, and depression. She also offers support with coaching and motivation for work goals. Amanda is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Louisiana with ten years of experience.
She treats each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on. Sessions focus on clear, doable steps rather than jargon. The tone is direct and encouraging to help someone move forward without feeling overwhelmed.
How Amanda works
Amanda works with common life pressures such as career demands, caregiving strain, and recurring worry. She pays attention to how physical health, chronic illness, or pain can shape mood and daily functioning. Communication problems, codependency, and control issues are other areas she addresses in practical ways.
Additional concerns Amanda supports include body image, fertility and reproductive stress, divorce and separation, grief and hospice or end-of-life counseling, and feelings of emptiness, guilt, or shame. She also handles complex presentations like co-morbidity and questions related to antisocial personality patterns when those come up in conversation. Her sessions are conversational and goal-focused.
Amanda blends discussion, skill-building, and coaching to help people find better routines and choices. She encourages small experiments between sessions to test new approaches and build confidence.
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
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Antisocial personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Louisiana |
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Online support options
Approach choices and how online sessions work
Amanda uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on actionable change. One approach emphasizes skill-building for managing anxiety and stress, teaching breathing, grounding, and routine adjustments to reduce overwhelm. Another approach centers on coaching for career and motivation, breaking large goals into small steps and making plans that fit a person’s daily life.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Amanda starts by listening to the person’s concerns, goals, and preferences, then suggests methods that match those needs. Together they try what feels most useful and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let the conversation feel most like an in-person visit and are useful for deeper check-ins. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide flexibility for short check-ins, coaching prompts, or quick skill reminders between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and changing schedules.
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