About Amanda
Amanda Dunn is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Colorado. She brings eight years of experience in mental health and focuses on anxiety, stress, depression, and trauma. Amanda centers sessions on the person in front of her and works to create an approachable, practical space to talk through hard things.
She uses practical tools to help people manage difficult feelings and life changes. Amanda draws from client-centered work and cognitive-behavioral strategies to set small, achievable steps.
Background and approach
For people processing past trauma she also offers EMDR-informed approaches when appropriate. Amanda aims for a warm, collaborative style. She listens first, and then helps you choose techniques that match your goals.
Sessions often include skills practice, gentle reflection, and real-world homework to make change feel doable. Her background includes outpatient settings and work with teens, young adults, and new parents. Amanda is experienced helping people cope with relationship strain, parenting stress, sleep problems, compassion fatigue, and identity concerns including gender dysphoria and LGBT issues.
She also supports people exploring alternative sexual cultures such as BDSM and polyamory, and addresses struggles like dissociation, emptiness, panic, and seasonal mood shifts. Amanda meets people where they are and focuses on steady, realistic progress rather than quick fixes.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Amanda commonly blends client-centered work and cognitive-behavioral approaches, and she can include EMDR-informed methods for trauma processing. Client-centered work focuses on listening, empathy, and following the person’s lead to build trust and clarity; it helps people feel seen and understood. Cognitive-behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns. EMDR-informed methods use guided bilateral stimulation alongside memory processing to help people reprocess traumatic memories when that approach fits their needs.Choosing the right approach is a shared decision. Amanda will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and comfort with different techniques. Together they decide whether to focus on skills practice, narrative work, trauma processing, or a mix of methods, and the plan can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skills practice, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text can be good for quick check-ins or when typing feels easier. These formats help fit therapy into busy days and different routines.
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What this counselor works with
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- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English