About Amanda
Amanda Potts is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Pennsylvania. She has seven years of clinical experience across settings like corrections, crisis counseling, and primary care. Amanda offers a calm, warm style that aims to make people feel heard from the first session.
She helps with stress, anxiety, sleep problems, anger, depression, ADHD, grief, and trauma and abuse. Amanda also supports people facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, self-esteem concerns, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Additional focus areas include mood disorders, panic attacks, impulsivity, and issues related to prejudice and discrimination. Amanda’s sessions are conversational and collaborative. She treats each person as the expert on their life and works alongside them to set realistic goals.
Her approach mixes practical skills and reflection so clients can try things between sessions and notice what helps. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, mindfulness practices, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused work. Those tools are used to build coping skills, manage strong emotions, and create clear steps toward change.
Amanda keeps the tone relaxed while focusing on concrete strategies. Before seeking therapy, people often want to know logistics. Amanda offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so therapy can fit different schedules.
Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time, and appointments are arranged through an initial matching process.
Approaches that fit online care
Amanda uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy alongside mindfulness techniques to help people manage difficult emotions and change unhelpful patterns. CBT focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and replacing them with more helpful options, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, panic, and sleep issues. DBT teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to reduce impulsivity and improve responses to strong feelings.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amanda will talk with clients about goals and preferences and try methods that match those needs. She collaborates on a plan and adjusts techniques as progress or challenges emerge, so therapy stays practical and tailored.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations, phone calls can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can suit brief check-ins or on-the-go support. These options provide flexibility for scheduling, make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, and allow people to use the method that helps them engage most effectively.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English