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Amanda Garrick

Calm, practical support for everyday parenting challenges

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Credentials
LCSW
Experience
17 years
Licensed in
California
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Amanda

Amanda Garrick is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in California with 17 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and addiction. Amanda also works with issues related to parenting, intimacy, relationships, and life changes.

She uses straightforward language and practical tools in sessions. Amanda trained in social work and has long experience in community mental health settings. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.

Background and approach

She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce overwhelm. In sessions she helps clients strengthen coping skills and solve everyday problems. She offers guidance on sleep, eating, attention challenges like ADHD, and compassion fatigue for caregivers.

Amanda pays attention to safety and crisis needs when they arise, and she has experience with trauma and abuse. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She works with each person to set clear, manageable goals.

Amanda explains techniques in plain terms and practices strategies together during sessions. Many clients find practical homework and small habit changes useful between meetings. She talks through communication tools and problem-solving steps that can help in real family and parenting situations.

Her approach aims to be realistic and usable in daily life.

How Amanda Uses CBT and Mindfulness Online

Amanda commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that lead to more stress or anxiety. CBT sessions include practical exercises and small behavior changes that you can try between meetings.

She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices. These techniques aim to reduce overwhelm and help people respond more calmly to parenting and life stresses.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Amanda will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adapt methods over time. This is a collaborative process where techniques are tested and adjusted to fit daily life.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options offer flexibility for busy schedules and allow people to access therapy from home or between activities. Amanda uses these formats to demonstrate skills, review homework, and check in on progress in ways that fit a client's routine.

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.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns can Amanda help with?
Amanda works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, trauma and abuse, parenting and family-related concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, sleeping and eating problems, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She uses a practical, collaborative style with clear goals. Sessions focus on skill-building, problem solving, and simple mindfulness exercises you can use at home.
How much experience does she have?
Amanda brings 17 years of experience in mental health and social services, including work with depression, anxiety, trauma-related disorders, and substance use issues.
What are Amanda's credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, licensed in California with license number CA LCSW 22688.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are offered?
Therapy is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does payment or cost work?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Amanda?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to therapist availability.

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Experience
17 years
Licensed
California
Languages
English

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