Amanda McLean
Change-focused therapist who listens
- Credentials
- LCSW, LICSW
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed in
- Washington, Oregon
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Amanda
Amanda McLean is a licensed social worker practicing in Washington. She guides people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and LGBT-related concerns. She also supports those managing relationship strain, parenting questions, grief, and life changes.
Her tone is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people make practical steps forward. Amanda uses clear, collaborative conversations to set goals together. She listens without judgment and helps clients identify small, manageable changes.
Sessions are interactive and focused on what the person wants to achieve.
Background and approach
With 13 years of clinical experience, Amanda draws on several evidence-informed methods. She blends acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive tools and mindfulness skills to address thoughts and behaviors. Motivational interviewing is used when people need help finding internal reasons to change.
She maintains a direct, honest style while staying compassionate. Amanda believes clients are the experts on their own lives and offers guidance that fits each person’s situation. Work in sessions centers on practical strategies, problem solving, and skills people can use between meetings.
Practical matters such as scheduling and how sessions run are discussed at the start so therapy stays focused and useful. Amanda’s background and mix of approaches allow for a flexible path that adjusts as goals evolve.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions that fit your life
Amanda commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then act in ways that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a hands-on approach that looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change patterns that cause distress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and then adjust methods as needed in a collaborative way.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats offer flexibility for busy schedules and make it easier to meet from home or another convenient location. They also let the therapist and client try different ways of communicating to see what helps progress most effectively.
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
Also works with
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Oregon
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point