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Amanda Hager

Supportive counselor focused on real-life family challenges

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Credentials
LPC
Experience
8 years
Licensed in
New Jersey
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Amanda

Amanda Hager is a licensed professional counselor who brings eight years of clinical practice to her work. She emphasizes collaboration and adjusts therapy to each person’s needs over time. Amanda listens for how life experiences, culture, family stories, and systems of power shape daily struggles.

She aims to create a calm, judgment-free space where people can talk about things they might avoid elsewhere. Her approach resists reducing someone to a list of symptoms.

Background and approach

Amanda focuses on strengths people already have and helps them build emotional foundations. She has substantial experience with eating disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and high-risk thoughts and behaviors. She also works with people affected by grief and loss, including loss through suicide.

Amanda has worked with Queer and transgender people and with those living with HIV/AIDS. She has experience supporting gay men with eating concerns and parents of transgender teens and adults. She also brings attention to how race and community life influence mental health.

In sessions she avoids rigid, one-size-fits-all techniques. Instead she adapts methods to fit each person’s story and goals. Amanda emphasizes open conversation and practical steps that feel doable between sessions.

She holds an LPC credential, which stands for Licensed Professional Counselor. Amanda practices in New Jersey and conducts therapy in English. Her style is straightforward and grounded, intended for people who want honest, practical help.

Therapeutic approaches for online family and parenting concerns

Amanda uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person’s perspective and needs. This approach centers what matters to the person in front of her, helps build trust, and supports clearer decision making for issues like stress, parenting challenges, or relationship strains.

She also draws on narrative therapy, which looks at the stories people tell about themselves and their families. By separating the person from the problem, narrative work can help reframe unhelpful beliefs and make space for different ways of relating and coping.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Amanda partners with clients to choose methods that match goals, values, and what feels doable. She adjusts strategies over time as needs change and as clients try new skills between sessions.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options offer flexibility for busy schedules and make it easier to fit consistent sessions into family life. Many people find that having multiple formats helps keep momentum between meetings and supports steady progress toward their goals.

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.

Existential Therapy

Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.

Narrative Therapy

Looking at the story you have come to tell about yourself, and where it came from. The work is in separating the problem from your identity and finding accounts that fit you better.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Amanda often work with?
Amanda works with a wide range of issues including anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and body image concerns, addictions, grief, ADHD, and stress-related problems. She also addresses family and blended family issues and related communication problems.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is collaborative and flexible. She focuses on strengths, invites open conversation, and adapts practical steps to fit each person’s situation and goals.
What is her background and experience?
She has eight years of clinical experience and notable work with eating disorders, ADHD, high-risk thoughts and behaviors, and grief including suicide loss. She has also supported Queer and transgender clients and people living with HIV/AIDS.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC - and practices in New Jersey. The license number on record is NJ LPC 37PC00884200.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the therapist's country work together?
International clients are not currently accepted. Sessions are provided to clients within the regions she serves in New Jersey.
What formats are available for sessions?
Sessions may take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are costs and getting started handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

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Experience
8 years
Licensed
New Jersey
Languages
English

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