About Amanda
Amanda Ulmer is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, and low self-esteem. She speaks plainly and aims to make therapy feel approachable and practical for worried parents and busy adults. Amanda uses a mix of methods to meet people where they are.
She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at relational patterns and how early bonds affect current connections. She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to help reframe unhelpful thinking and build specific coping skills.
Background and approach
Her approach is client-centered, which means she listens first and adjusts pace to each person's needs. She values respect, sensitivity, and compassion and works to create a calm, nonjudgmental space for honest conversation. Sessions focus on clear goals and simple strategies you can use between meetings.
With six years of experience, Amanda has supported people through issues like codependency, communication problems, grief around separation, and feelings of emptiness or guilt. She also helps with caregiver stress, body image concerns, and family of origin problems. Amanda holds LPC-MH and LPC credentials and practices in South Dakota.
She offers straightforward guidance and practical tools to help people build healthier relationships with themselves and others. If you want a therapist who listens and helps you find workable steps forward, she may be a good fit.
How Amanda’s Approaches Work Online
Amanda uses attachment-based work to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This helps when trust, abandonment fears, or communication cycles are causing stress in close relationships. She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT gives concrete tools for managing anxiety, improving mood, and changing routines that get in the way of daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Amanda will listen to each person's goals and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. This is a collaborative process - goals are set together and adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let you work face-to-face when discussing relationship patterns or doing deeper work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when a shorter check-in fits your day. Live chat and text-based messaging can support quick coping skills, check-ins between sessions, or ongoing reflection without needing to be on camera. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while using the approaches that best match your needs.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- South Dakota, Arizona
- Languages
- English