About Amanda
Amanda Whichard is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and major life changes. She draws on six years of clinical experience and works from a strengths-based perspective. Amanda encourages clients to notice what already helps them and build on those skills.
Her sessions focus on practical steps people can use day to day. She uses approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking, Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for strong emotions, and EMDR for trauma processing when appropriate.
How Amanda works
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing also appear in her work to help clients stay present and find personal motivation. Amanda emphasizes collaboration. She treats the person in front of her as the expert in their own life and offers guidance, tools, and steady support.
This makes room for short-term goals and longer-term growth depending on what someone needs. She has a Master of Science and holds the LPC and LPC-MHSP credentials in Tennessee and Mississippi. Amanda has supported people dealing with mood disorders such as bipolar and depression, as well as obsessive thoughts, panic attacks, and compulsions.
She also helps with caregiver stress, codependency, communication problems, and life purpose questions. Sessions are offered in English and are available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Costs vary with location and therapist availability and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Amanda lists 9 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
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LPC-MHSP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Mississippi |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
CBT helps people spot and change thinking patterns that worsen anxiety or low mood. In practice this looks like identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing them, and trying new behaviors to see what helps.DBT offers concrete skills for handling intense emotions and improving relationships. It often includes short tools for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. EMDR can be used for processing traumatic memories by linking focused attention with new information, which may reduce distress tied to those memories.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, symptoms, and past attempts at change, then recommend methods that fit. Plans can be adjusted over time as needs and preferences become clearer.
Online therapy makes these approaches accessible through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow for real-time conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is low or a camera isn’t practical. Live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins or ongoing coaching easier to fit into a busy day. These options support flexibility while using the same therapeutic tools as in-person work.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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