About Amanda
Amanda Kayes-Carson "Kayes" helps people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, parenting strain, relationship problems, and other life challenges. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Colorado with over two decades of experience. Kayes aims to create a respectful space where someone can talk through what feels overwhelming and start to feel more in control.
Kayes listens first and lets each person set the pace of the work.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward conversations to identify the most pressing concerns. Together the client and therapist decide on practical steps to try between sessions. Progress is measured in small, achievable changes rather than abstract goals.
Her approach draws on attachment ideas and client-centered care to strengthen relationships and self-understanding. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are introduced when emotional regulation and distress tolerance are primary needs.
Kayes has worked with a wide range of issues including grief, addiction, ADHD, intimacy-related struggles, and caregiver stress. She also addresses adoption and foster care matters, blended family challenges, and communication problems. Her experience with trauma informs how she moves at a comfortable pace and adapts interventions when needed.
Sessions are practical and down-to-earth. Kayes focuses on what will make daily life easier, whether that is managing mood swings, coping with big changes, or improving how someone connects with others. She supports people as they try new approaches and build skills that fit their lives.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how connections shape feelings and behavior. Online sessions use conversation to map relationship patterns and try new ways of relating, which can help with attachment issues, abandonment concerns, and intimacy struggles.Client-Centered Therapy centers on the person’s experience and choice. In teletherapy the therapist listens without judgment and follows the client’s lead to set goals and pace. This approach helps when someone needs acceptance, clearer self-understanding, or support making life changes.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and actions that keep problems going. In virtual sessions the therapist and client identify unhelpful thinking, practice new behaviors, and track small changes between meetings to reduce anxiety, depression, or anger.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Plans are adjusted over time so the method fits the person rather than the person fitting a method.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients check in between sessions or reflect in writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum as goals evolve.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English