Amanda Marvin
Calm, practical therapy for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Amanda
Amanda Marvin is a licensed clinical social worker with 11 years of experience in North Carolina. She focuses on common life struggles parents worry about - stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and relationship problems. She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through what’s happening and start practical change.
Amanda uses straightforward, evidence-based methods to help clients build skills. Sessions emphasize clearer communication, healthier coping habits, and managing strong emotions.
Background and approach
She also addresses issues like compassion fatigue, anger, self-esteem, and the effects of trauma and abuse. The practice draws on several therapy approaches to match each person’s needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
Mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy help people notice difficult feelings and act on values they care about. Amanda supports people working through relationship struggles, blended family issues, divorce and separation, and family of origin concerns. She also offers help for substance use and co-occurring problems where addiction is involved.
She keeps language plain and practical so parents can use techniques at home. Sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy schedules. Amanda explains clinical ideas in simple terms and works with each person to set realistic goals.
The aim is steady progress, one manageable step at a time.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and life changes to help people move forward despite hard emotions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small experiments to change them and behavior. CBT is useful for stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and habit changes.Finding the right approach is a team process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, what has or hasn’t helped before, and what feels doable. Together they decide whether ACT, CBT, mindfulness techniques, or a mix of methods is the best fit for the current issue.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, while phone sessions work when video isn’t possible. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between meetings or use therapy in shorter bursts during busy weeks. These options can make it easier to keep therapy consistent and fit it around parenting and work schedules.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Depression
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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