Amanda PhillipsLICSW, LISW

Amanda Phillips is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience helping people navigate hard life moments. She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, trauma and abuse, depression, and issues that touch parenting and pregnancy and childbirth. Amanda emphasizes practical steps and steady support for people who are worried or overwhelmed.

Her approach centers on the person in front of her. She treats each person as the expert on their own story and looks for strengths to build on. Sessions focus on clear, doable strategies you can use between meetings as well as space to talk through feelings and events.

Amanda brings a mix of methods to the room, including acceptance and commitment strategies, cognitive behavior techniques, and client-centered listening. She also draws from dialectical behavior ideas and relationship-focused work when helpful. Those tools are used together to match what each person needs rather than following a single formula.

Over two decades of practice have included work with survivors of domestic violence, people living with post-traumatic stress, and veterans. Amanda also supports people facing grief, caregiver strain, codependency, and major life transitions. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aiming to make therapy useful in everyday life.

She holds LICSW and LISW credentials and practices out of Alabama. If you are considering therapy, she encourages the small first step of creating a match and seeing what feels right for you.

How Amanda's Approaches Translate to Online Care

Amanda uses acceptance and commitment therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values despite difficult thoughts or feelings. She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and teach practical skills to change behaviors and reduce anxiety.

Finding the right approach is a shared task. She will work with each person to decide which methods make sense based on goals, life demands, and personal preference. That means trying tools together and adjusting as needed rather than committing to a single path from the start.

If you are considering online work, confirm current session options before booking since formats are not listed here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow quicker check-ins when life is hectic, and reduce travel time. Some people prefer audio-only for lower bandwidth or to avoid being on camera, while others like video for face-to-face interaction; the therapist can discuss what will work best for your situation.