About Amanda
Amanda Perry is a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania with ten years of experience. She focuses on creating a calm, respectful space where people can talk about stress, anxiety, relationships, self-esteem, and motivation. She helps clients find practical ways to improve focus, mood, and day-to-day functioning.
She began work as a school counselor and has more recently provided outpatient therapy. That background gives her experience with concentration and attention challenges such as ADHD, and with common life struggles like grief, career shifts, and coping with change.
Background and approach
Her approach is straightforward and person-centered. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused, with an emphasis on small, manageable steps. Amanda works with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, addictions, body image, and intimacy-related issues.
She also addresses social anxiety, seasonal mood changes, and sexuality. Communication problems, control issues, and feelings of guilt or shame are common topics she helps people untangle. In sessions she aims to listen without judgment and to help people build confidence and clearer direction.
She frames therapy as collaboration and supports practical skills people can try between meetings. The goal is steady progress, not quick fixes. People who value a direct but warm style tend to respond well.
Amanda combines her school counseling experience with outpatient practice to offer focused support for everyday challenges and longer-term goals.
Common therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Amanda uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical skills and clearer thinking. One useful approach helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different, more balanced ways of thinking. This method is helpful for anxiety, low mood, and stress by teaching tools to reduce worry and improve daily mood.Another approach focuses on building routines and skills to improve attention and organization. It breaks tasks into smaller steps and uses strategies to boost focus and memory, which can be helpful for people managing ADHD-related challenges and work or school demands.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to understand goals and preferences, then adapt techniques over time. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for a fuller conversation and visual cues, phone can fit a break at work or lower bandwidth situations, and chat or messaging can support shorter check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English