About Amanda
Amanda Whichard is a Licensed Professional Counselor who offers support for stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and major life changes. She brings six years of clinical experience and focuses on practical ways to help people feel steadier and more in control. Amanda speaks plainly and works to create a calm setting for conversations about difficult topics.
She believes people know their own stories and already carry strengths to draw on. In sessions she helps identify those strengths and build steps that feel manageable.
Background and approach
That can mean learning simple tools to manage panic, practicing new ways to handle conflict, or making a plan for day-to-day coping during hard times. Amanda uses methods that include cognitive behavioral work, skills from dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness exercises, and targeted trauma work.
She tailors these methods to the concerns a person brings, such as mood disorders, obsessive thoughts, or the impact of loss. Treatment aims are set together and adjusted as needs change. Her background includes licensure in Mississippi and Tennessee as an MS LPC and Tennessee LPC-MHSP.
Amanda has worked with people facing caregiver stress, compassion fatigue, communication problems, and other life disruptions. She focuses on clear, doable steps rather than lengthy theory. Sessions can include short coaching-style conversations or deeper therapy work, depending on what a person needs.
Amanda helps people weigh options, practice new skills, and track small gains over time.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps people recognize patterns that increase anxiety or low mood and practice small changes to feel better. DBT, or dialectical behavior therapy, teaches practical skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. These skills can reduce impulsivity and help during intense moments. EMDR, used for trauma work, involves structured processing to reduce distress from painful memories and can be adapted for online sessions depending on the person's needs.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Amanda will talk through goals, symptoms, and what a person prefers, then suggest methods to try. She adjusts the plan as progress is made so the approach fits the person rather than forcing a single method.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and do deeper work. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can support quick updates, brief coaching, or ongoing practice between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around a busy life and to keep working on skills between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi, Tennessee
- Languages
- English