About Amanda
Amanda Wilson is a licensed professional counselor in Mississippi with 21 years of experience. She focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family conflict, grief, and substance concerns. Amanda aims to make the first step toward help feel manageable and supportive.
She offers a calm presence and practical direction for people ready to try something different. Her approach is direct and collaborative. Amanda uses conversations to identify patterns that cause pain and then works with each person to try new ways of responding.
Background and approach
She draws on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, especially when trauma or painful memories are part of the story. Sessions are paced to match what a person needs that week. Amanda also addresses intimacy and parenting strain, self-esteem, career stress, and life transitions.
She listens for what matters most and helps set small, concrete goals people can use between sessions. When difficult emotions like anger, grief, or burnout show up, she focuses on coping skills that bring relief sooner rather than later. Her background includes professional work across clinical settings and telehealth, so she is comfortable helping people over video, phone, chat, or messaging.
Amanda explains steps clearly and checks in on progress so plans can change if needed. She welcomes straightforward conversations about concerns, options, and the pace of work. The goal is steady, usable change that fits daily life rather than a perfect solution.
How Amanda Uses EMDR and Online Care
Amanda uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to help people who carry painful memories or trauma symptoms. EMDR pairs focused attention on memories with guided eye movements or other bilateral stimulation to reduce the intensity of those memories and ease related stress. It can be helpful when past events keep affecting daily life.Her work is collaborative. She will talk with each person about their history, current goals, and treatment preferences before suggesting approaches. Together they decide whether EMDR or another path fits best, and she adjusts the pace based on comfort and progress.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let Amanda and the client use visual cues and interactive exercises. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow ongoing support between sessions and can fit into busy days. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and other responsibilities.
Questions people ask
What concerns does she help with?
How would you describe her therapy style?
What is her professional background?
Where is she licensed and practicing?
Which languages are available for sessions?
Are international clients accepted?
What session formats does she provide?
How does payment and getting started work?
What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English