About Amanda
Amanda Schmidt is a licensed professional counselor clinical candidate (LPCC) practicing in Minnesota with nine years of work experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and relationship struggles. Amanda emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and a straightforward approach when people first reach out.
She tailors conversations and plans to each person’s situation. Sessions center on practical steps and clear goals. Amanda helps people build coping skills for life changes and everyday pressures.
Background and approach
Her background includes nearly a decade of seeing adults through mood concerns and substance-related problems. She has supported people dealing with caregiver stress, workplace strain, and the isolation that can come with life transitions. Amanda also addresses issues like forgiveness, guilt, and finding renewed purpose.
In sessions she focuses on communication skills and ways to reduce social anxiety and phobias. She adapts techniques to seasonal mood shifts like SAD and to concerns common among young adults and women navigating midlife questions. Her work aims to make progress feel tangible.
Amanda offers a collaborative, down-to-earth style. She listens first, then helps prioritize what feels most pressing. The plan may include short-term strategies and longer-term skill building to help people feel more steady and in control.
Therapeutic approaches and online options that fit your life
The practice uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on skills and change. One common approach emphasizes building coping and communication skills through structured conversations and practical exercises. This helps with anxiety, stress, and everyday relationship problems. Another approach concentrates on identifying unhelpful patterns and trying small behavior changes to improve mood and reduce substance use. That method is useful for depression, addictive behaviors, and finding new routines.Choosing the right method is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals, try out approaches, and adjust what you do based on what helps most. This collaborative process makes it easier to pick strategies that suit your needs and preferences rather than relying on a single rigid plan.
Online therapy is offered through several formats to make care more flexible. Video calls let you use visual connection for deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick reflections, progress notes, and continuing work between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different life routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English