Amanda DiGenova
Calm, practical support for family and parenting
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Amanda
Amanda DiGenova is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York. She draws on ten years of clinical experience and focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship issues. Her approach is practical and encouraging, aimed at helping people find calmer patterns and clearer communication in daily life.
Amanda uses straightforward talk therapy that is supportive and active. She tends to guide people through steps they can try between sessions, and she emphasizes strengths and small changes that build over time.
Background and approach
She also brings an interest in holistic and complementary practices to sessions when relevant. Her background includes work with family dynamics tied to substance use, sexual orientation, and varied family structures. Amanda has experience addressing grief, anger, intimacy-related issues, addictions, and coping with life changes.
She also works with concerns like body image, codependency, and blended family challenges. Therapy with Amanda blends client-centered listening with strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. She aims to create practical plans for communication, emotion regulation, and coping skills.
Sessions tend to be motivating and solution-minded while honoring each person’s values. People who choose her often want a therapist who is direct but warm. She encourages collaboration and helps people set realistic goals for family life, parenting, and personal wellbeing.
Therapeutic approaches and online options for family concerns
Amanda often uses client-centered work that focuses on each person’s needs and values. This approach means the therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps set goals based on what matters to the client. It can be useful for families and parents who want a respectful, strengths-based starting point.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT involves identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing different behaviors and coping strategies. This method is helpful for anxiety, depression, stress, and many parenting-related struggles where concrete skills can make daily life easier.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Amanda will collaborate with each client to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying things out and adjusting plans as progress and challenges become clearer.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy families and parents. Video calls let people meet face to face without travel, while phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging provide options for shorter check-ins or situations when realtime video is difficult. These formats make it easier to keep continuity of care and to practice new skills between sessions.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
Frequently asked questions
What issues does Amanda help with?
What is her therapy style like?
How much clinical experience does she have?
What credentials and region should I know about?
Which languages are used in sessions?
What formats are available for sessions?
How is cost handled for sessions?
How do I begin working with her?
Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Amanda
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point