Amanda Phillips
Compassionate practical therapy for everyday family life
- Credentials
- LICSW, LISW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Alabama, Iowa
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Amanda
Amanda Phillips is a licensed clinical social worker who brings 20 years of experience to her practice. She holds LICSW and LISW credentials and practices in Alabama. She focuses on family and parenting concerns along with stress, anxiety, relationships, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related issues.
Her approach centers on working with each person as the expert on their own life. She listens first, then uses practical tools from therapies like cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to clarify what matters most and build small changes that fit daily life. Amanda has worked with people facing depression, grief, sleep problems, anger, and low self-esteem. She also has experience addressing issues such as caregiver stress, codependency, domestic violence, and post-traumatic stress.
These areas often show up alongside life transitions, parenting challenges, or difficulty finding purpose. Therapy sessions combine talk, skill practice, and focused strategies to manage strong emotions and improve communication. She also draws on elements of dialectical behavior therapy and the Gottman Method when relationship patterns are involved.
The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Beginning therapy is often the hardest part. Amanda helps people take that step by creating a straightforward plan and adjusting methods to fit each person’s pace and goals.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Amanda often uses acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in her online work. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and take small, meaningful steps even when hard feelings are present. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and building practical skills to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood.She views finding the right approach as a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they adjust techniques over time so the work fits daily life and family demands.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care fit a busy schedule. These formats allow for flexible timing, shorter check-ins when needed, and continued work between meetings. Many people find it easier to balance therapy with parenting and work when multiple online options are available.
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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Alabama, Iowa
- Languages
- English
Next step
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