About Amanda
Amanda Gale uses a person-centered, strengths-based approach to help people manage day-to-day stress and plan for change. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 12 years of clinical experience and practical focus on building coping skills and confidence for life’s challenges. Her work centers on short-term, goal-focused therapy.
Amanda often frames care as an 8 to 12 session plan to teach tools and practices clients can keep using afterward.
How Amanda works
She also provides ongoing supportive work when more time is helpful. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, bipolar concerns, and stress from work or caregiving. Relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, addicts issues, and problems with self-esteem are also frequent areas she addresses.
Amanda pays attention to attachment and abandonment issues, communication problems, and feelings of guilt or shame. Amanda blends practical strategies from cognitive behavioral ideas and acceptance-oriented work with a supportive, client-centered stance. Dialectical behavior ideas and attachment-based perspectives inform how she helps people regulate emotions and improve connections.
She aims to identify strengths and build them up rather than focusing on deficits. Clients can expect a collaborative process where Amanda acts as a guide and mentor. She works together with people to create choice-based plans, teach coping skills, and increase confidence for a more satisfying life.
Sessions emphasize clear goals, skill practice, and realistic steps forward.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, CSW-PIP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | South Dakota |
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Online support options
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Amanda draws on acceptance and commitment ideas and attachment-based perspectives to shape online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and choose actions that match their values; it can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and how early bonds affect current reactions; it is useful for communication problems, abandonment concerns, and building stronger connections. Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s experience at the center of sessions and prioritizes empathy, respect, and collaboration to help people build confidence and solve problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amanda treats therapy as a collaborative process and will help figure out which methods fit a person’s needs and goals. Together they set priorities, select strategies, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, skill reminders, and ongoing encouragement between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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