Amanda Marcum
Compassionate clinician for family concerns
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed in
- Indiana, Kentucky
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Amanda
Amanda Marcum is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who uses a warm, practical style to help people facing family and parenting challenges. She draws on 18 years of clinical experience and focuses on building a comfortable connection before diving into problems. Conversations are straightforward and respectful so parents can talk about tough topics without feeling judged.
Her approach centers on listening first and then offering tools that fit daily life.
Background and approach
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship struggles, addiction concerns, trauma, and parenting challenges. She also addresses issues like attachment, blended family dynamics, adoption and foster care situations, and caregiver stress. Amanda blends client-centered listening with practical methods such as cognitive behavioral strategies and solution-focused planning.
She uses mindfulness techniques to reduce stress and motivational interviewing to support change. Sessions emphasize small, doable steps that can create momentum at home. She works with adolescents, adults, and families in Indiana and holds LCSW licensure for both Indiana and Kentucky.
Amanda explains interventions in plain language and checks in regularly to make sure the plan still fits a family’s life. Her goal is to help clients feel understood and to find workable ways forward. Practical access is part of her work style.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging to fit busy family schedules. Parents are invited to start with a short questionnaire to match on scheduling and to begin planning sessions that match their needs and goals.
Practical therapy approaches for online family care
Amanda combines client-centered listening with practical tools to help families and parents tackle real problems. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a respectful, non-judgmental space where the person leads the conversation and the therapist reflects back what matters most. This approach helps parents feel heard and understood before making changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down unhelpful thoughts and routines into manageable pieces. It teaches simple skills to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and change patterns that get in the way of family life. Solution-Focused Therapy narrows in on small, specific steps and short-term goals that can produce faster movement on immediate concerns like parenting challenges or relationship communication.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Amanda will collaborate with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals and everyday life. She checks in and adjusts plans based on progress, preferences, and what seems most useful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging so therapy can fit school schedules, work hours, and parenting demands. These options provide flexible ways to stay consistent with sessions and to use brief check-ins or messaging between appointments for ongoing support.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Kentucky
- Languages
- English
Next step
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