Amanda Averill
Family-focused social worker supporting parents and adults
- Credentials
- LISW, LICSW
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Ohio, Minnesota
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Amanda
Amanda Averill is a licensed social worker with ten years of experience. She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and family concerns. She also addresses issues like addiction, relationship and intimacy problems, parenting challenges, and compassion fatigue.
Amanda works from Ohio and holds licenses in both Minnesota and Ohio as noted. Her practice emphasizes that each person knows their own story and strengths. Sessions focus on practical steps clients can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Amanda encourages clear goals and honest conversation rather than complex jargon. She brings experience helping people navigate coping with life changes, anger, self-esteem struggles, and career questions. Her additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment concerns, blended family and divorce issues, fertility and end-of-life counseling, and challenges such as impulsivity and infidelity.
Amanda uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each client. That means she chooses approaches that match the problem at hand and what the person prefers. Over time she helps clients test new ways of handling stressful situations and relationships.
Her background includes practice across clinical settings over a decade and licensure as a Licensed Independent Social Worker and a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker. People who reach out can expect a straightforward, respectful process that centers their goals and strengths.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions that fit real life
Amanda uses practical, evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real problems and clear steps forward. One common approach she draws on helps people learn skills for managing strong emotions and anxiety, teaching tools to reduce stress and regain control in day-to-day situations. Another method she uses targets patterns in relationships and attachment, helping clients notice old habits and try new ways of relating that support healthier family dynamics.Finding the right approach happens together. She works with each person to identify which techniques match their goals, history, and what feels doable. The plan can change as progress is made and new needs appear, and Amanda treats the process as a collaborative exploration rather than a fixed prescription.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different comfort levels and schedules. These formats make it easier to keep momentum between sessions and to use therapeutic tools in the actual settings where challenges occur, like at home or work.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Minnesota
- Languages
- English
Next step
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