About Amanda
Amanda Poffenberger is a licensed mental health counselor in Washington with 12 years of experience. She helps people facing relationship and intimacy challenges, and those struggling with eating concerns. Her style is straightforward and active, aimed at helping people feel heard and make practical changes.
In sessions she focuses on building a space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without fear of judgment. She encourages honest communication and clearer boundaries.
Background and approach
The work often includes talking through hurts, patterns, and unmet needs so people can move toward healthier connections. Amanda uses somatic-informed techniques to help people notice how emotions show up in the body. She integrates Emotionally-Focused Therapy and the Gottman Method when appropriate to address feelings and relationship patterns.
She also draws on psychodynamic and systemic ideas to understand how past relationships and family of origin shape current struggles. Clients may explore attachment wounds, body image, communication problems, and issues like infidelity or mood difficulties. She also supports people dealing with post-traumatic stress, personality concerns, and challenges tied to pregnancy and childbirth or sexuality.
Her approach balances insight with practical steps to change interactions. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Amanda uses a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches for online relationship and body work
Amanda uses Somatic Therapy to help people notice how emotions and stress appear in the body. This can include simple grounding and breath awareness to reduce physical tension tied to strong feelings. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people map and change their emotional responses in relationships by identifying core emotions and needs. The Gottman Method offers practical tools for improving communication and reducing repetitive conflict patterns.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Amanda will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She blends approaches when it helps, and checks in regularly to make sure the work feels useful and relevant.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. These formats let people access care from home, fit sessions into busy schedules, and use different ways of communicating as needs change. Licensed professionals can adapt somatic, emotionally-focused, and skills-based work to these online formats to support steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
Also works with
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English