About Amanda
Amanda Martin is a licensed counselor who helps people make sense of stress, anxiety, addiction, and low self-esteem. She presents therapy as a place to stop pretending and to finally take a breath. Amanda uses a warm, direct manner and balances compassion with honest feedback to help people move forward.
She works with adults facing life transitions, relationship pain, and emotional patterns that keep them stuck. Amanda pays attention to how past experiences shape present reactions and helps clients build new responses.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on clearer boundaries, reducing self-criticism, and learning skills to cope with mood and anxiety symptoms. Amanda brings ten years of clinical experience to her practice. She holds an Ohio LPCC, which stands for Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor.
That background informs her practical, problem-focused work with issues like substance use and postpartum mood changes. Her style is collaborative. Amanda asks questions, reflects what she hears, and offers tools clients can try between sessions.
She will gently challenge unhelpful patterns while supporting steady progress at a pace that feels manageable. People who feel isolated, empty, or stuck in repeating cycles often come to explore new directions. Amanda helps identify coping strategies and small, realistic changes that add up over time.
She aims to help clients build a clearer sense of self and stronger day-to-day coping skills.
How Amanda’s approaches translate to online work
Amanda uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address trauma and addiction-related concerns. She focuses on helping people understand how past experiences shape current reactions and then practices new ways of responding. This often includes guided processing of difficult memories and step-by-step coaching for healthier behavior patterns.She also emphasizes skill-building for mood and anxiety management. That work involves simple practical exercises, short behavioral experiments, and techniques to quiet a harsh inner critic. These tools are meant to be used between sessions to support steady change.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Amanda will discuss different techniques and decide with each person which methods feel most useful. She tailors strategies to individual goals, pace, and preferences so therapy fits real life.
The profile does not specify which session formats are offered online. Please confirm current session options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow for brief check-ins when a shorter conversation is helpful. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework for remote sessions so clients continue progress between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English