Amanda Dodd
Empathetic LCSW guiding practical change
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed in
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Amanda
Amanda Dodd is a licensed clinical social worker in Virginia who centers work on the client’s experience. She draws on person-focused methods to listen first, then helps people set practical goals they can reach. Amanda balances direct tools with an open, nonjudgmental attitude so clients feel heard while trying new ways to cope.
She has 14 years of professional experience and supports people with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress.
Background and approach
Amanda also addresses relationship concerns, intimacy-related issues, and parenting challenges. She is kink-friendly, poly-friendly, and offers both faith-based and secular approaches depending on a person's needs. Her toolbox includes cognitive behavioral strategies to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She uses dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation and mindfulness techniques to reduce reactivity. Motivational interviewing helps when someone is weighing change, such as with addictions or lifestyle shifts. Amanda pays attention to how past attachments and abandonment experiences shape current patterns.
She also helps with blended family issues, caregiver stress, body image and chronic illness adjustments. Conversations focus on workable steps clients can try between sessions. Sessions are offered in English and can take place by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Amanda’s approach aims to match practical strategies with each person’s values and day-to-day life.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Amanda blends a few practical methods in online sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and depression. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills useful for strong moods and relationship stress. Mindfulness techniques help ground attention and ease reactivity in daily life.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Amanda listens to each person's goals, values, and preferences and then suggests methods to try. Over time she and the client check what is working and adjust the plan together to make therapy fit everyday life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to keep regular appointments around work, caregiving, or health needs. The different formats also let people try shorter check-ins or longer sessions depending on what feels most helpful.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- 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
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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