About Amanda
Amanda Hager is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey. She approaches therapy as an active, collaborative process. Amanda focuses on understanding each person as a whole rather than labeling them by symptoms alone.
She pays attention to how life experiences shape well-being. This includes family history, community influences, culture, and societal expectations. Amanda aims to help people identify their strengths and build emotional foundations for change.
Amanda has eight years of clinical experience.
Background and approach
She has worked with concerns such as eating disorders, ADHD, and high-risk thoughts and behaviors. She also has experience with grief and loss, and with clients living with HIV/AIDS. Her practice includes support around identity-related concerns, including work with queer and transgender clients, and issues tied to gender dysphoria.
She also addresses intimacy-related concerns, body image, codependency, and relationship difficulties. Sessions are intended to be a nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about what matters to them. Amanda adapts her approach over time to match each person’s needs and goals.
She uses methods that center the client’s experience and practical steps toward clearer direction.
How Amanda’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person in the room and their lived experience. The therapist listens closely and follows the client’s lead to build understanding and trust, which can help with issues like self-esteem, identity, and relationship difficulties.Existential Therapy looks at meaning, choices, and personal responsibility. It helps people facing life transitions, emptiness, or questions about purpose by encouraging honest reflection and clearer values-driven decisions.
Amanda treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they try methods and adjust the plan based on what actually helps the person move forward.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, and other responsibilities.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English