About Amanda
Amanda Perkins is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida who helps people facing anxiety, stress, grief, and relationship strain. She writes plainly and listens carefully to understand what matters most to each person. Amanda aims to help clients find clearer ways to cope and move forward.
She draws on ten years of experience to tailor sessions to the individual. That can mean practical skills for day-to-day anxiety, strategies to manage mood swings, or ways to bring more ease into difficult relationships.
Background and approach
Amanda also supports people dealing with trauma, parenting challenges, caregiving stress, and identity concerns such as LGBT issues. Her style is warm and steady. She gives direct feedback and teaches skills people can use between sessions.
Conversations focus on what’s useful in the client’s life rather than on jargon or long histories. Amanda uses a mix of approaches depending on the need. That might include techniques to change unhelpful thinking, skills for emotional regulation, or exploring attachment patterns that affect current relationships.
She works together with each person to pick what fits best. Clients can expect practical suggestions, short exercises, and a plan that adapts as progress unfolds. Amanda’s goal is to help people build self-compassion, improve communication, and develop stronger coping tools.
She meets clients where they are and helps them take manageable steps toward a steadier life.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Amanda commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. ACT emphasizes values and small actions that move someone toward a more meaningful life. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns that feed anxiety and low mood. CBT often includes simple, practical exercises to try between sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy is another part of her work when relationship patterns or past bonds shape current difficulties; this approach looks at how early connections influence how people relate now and offers ways to practice different, healthier responses.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Amanda will discuss goals, personal preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. She adapts methods over time so the plan matches the client’s needs and pace, and she involves clients in deciding which techniques to use.
Online therapy gives flexible options for how and when to meet. Video calls let people use visual connection for deeper discussion. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick updates, brief coaching, or when a client prefers written communication. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep consistent momentum toward goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- 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
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English