About Amanda
Amanda Ezell helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck. She works with clients who are facing depression, trauma, major life changes, or questions about sexuality and identity. Amanda presents a calm, straightforward presence so people can talk about hard things without jargon.
Amanda is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Licensed Professional Counselor. She brings ten years of clinical experience to sessions and has worked with a range of concerns, including stress, PTSD, and issues common in LGBTQ communities.
Background and approach
Her approach is practical and focused on day-to-day coping skills as well as longer-term personal growth. In sessions she listens for patterns that keep problems repeating. She helps people develop clearer communication, stronger boundaries, and ways to handle intense emotions.
Amanda also addresses concerns around body image, sexuality, kink and alternative sex culture, and relationship structures such as non-monogamy when those topics come up. She tailors strategies to each person’s goals. That can mean shorter-term work to manage anxiety or slower, deeper work to process past trauma.
Amanda encourages self-compassion and actionable steps that make life feel more manageable between sessions. Practicing in Alabama with credentials listed as LMHC and LPC, Amanda offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. She helps people find a pace that fits their life and keeps the focus on practical progress and clearer day-to-day functioning.
Approaches that fit online care
Amanda commonly applies evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills and processing. One approach emphasizes building practical coping skills for anxiety and stress, teaching breathing, grounding, and thought-management tools that can be practiced between sessions. Another strand of her work centers on trauma-informed processing, helping people tell their story at a pace that feels safe while learning ways to reduce reactivity and improve day-to-day functioning.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, what has helped or not helped before, and preferences for pace and focus. Together they adjust methods over time so the work fits the client’s needs and life circumstances.
Online therapy here includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer practical flexibility. Video lets people connect face to face when that is helpful. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can work well when being on camera is difficult. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for short check-ins, homework support, or when a quick therapeutic touchpoint fits a busy day. These options make it easier to schedule sessions and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Alabama, Florida
- Languages
- English