About Amanda
Amanda Reid is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on practical, person-centered care. She uses straightforward talk and active listening to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, mood changes, and parenting challenges. Amanda keeps sessions focused on small, useful steps that fit into daily life.
She blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral ideas and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, try new behaviors, and learn skills for emotion regulation.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skill practice, problem-solving, and planning for real-world situations. Her experience includes eight years working in outpatient settings in the region. Prior roles involved substance use counseling and work in group-home and hospital environments, which shaped her practical approach to coping and relapse prevention.
Amanda aims to meet people where they are and build on their strengths. Common concerns she addresses include depression, trauma and abuse, ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, anger, low self-esteem, and coping with life changes. She also supports people facing attachment and blended-family issues, adoption and foster care concerns, chronic illness or pain, caregiver stress, and communication or commitment problems.
Amanda emphasizes collaboration and small, achievable goals. Sessions typically focus on building coping skills, grounding techniques, and reshaping daily habits. Her goal is to help people create steadier routines and clearer choices.
How Amanda adapts evidence-based approaches for online care
Amanda draws on client-centered therapy to create a collaborative space where the person's goals guide each session. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping people choose the changes they want to try, which works well over video or messaging when someone needs a flexible, person-led plan.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT sessions often include short exercises, thought records, and concrete homework that translate easily to video calls or phone sessions and can be reinforced through text or chat between meetings.
Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used to build emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. These are taught as step-by-step tools and practiced in session so clients can use them during stressful moments outside therapy.
Choosing the right approach is a joint process. The therapist and client review concerns, goals, and preferences and try methods that fit daily life. Amanda adapts techniques based on what helps most, and she checks in regularly to adjust the plan.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, giving practical flexibility. Video works well for in-depth conversation and skill demonstrations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging suit quick check-ins or brief skill coaching. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English