About Amanda
Amanda Whichard is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and major life changes. She holds LPC and LPC-MHSP credentials and works with adults navigating mood concerns like depression and bipolar, attention challenges, and relationship or career stress. Amanda speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
She believes each person knows their story best. Sessions look like a guided conversation where strengths are highlighted and small, manageable goals are set.
Background and approach
Amanda mixes talk-based approaches with body-focused work to help feelings that live in the body as well as the mind. Her approach draws on Somatic methods alongside Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools. That means attention to physical experience, skill-building for distress, and checking thoughts that get in the way.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and mindfulness practices are also available when they fit the client’s needs. Amanda has six years of professional experience and is licensed in Mississippi and Tennessee. She supports people dealing with caregiver stress, codependency, panic, obsessive worries, and first responder-related strain.
She also addresses family of origin issues, communication problems, and life purpose concerns. Therapy can start with identifying immediate coping needs and then moving toward longer-term change. Amanda aims to empower people to take small steps that add up to real relief.
Sessions are offered in English and scheduled to match client needs.
How somatic tools and skills translate to online therapy
Amanda integrates Somatic work and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice how stress shows up in the body and then change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Somatic work focuses on bodily sensation and gentle regulation techniques to reduce physical tension and emotional overwhelm. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at patterns of thinking and uses practical exercises to shift reactions and build coping skills.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. DBT skills teach grounding, distress tolerance, and communication techniques that are useful when stress feels overwhelming. Amanda views selecting an approach as a collaborative process and will help clients try methods that fit their needs, goals, and personal preferences.
Online formats make it easier to access this work from home or on the go. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and guided body-awareness exercises. Phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging offer shorter check-ins, skill coaching between sessions, and flexible ways to practice new tools. Together these options make it possible to blend somatic awareness with cognitive and DBT skills in ways that fit everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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