Amanda Potts
Practical, collaborative counseling with a calm approach
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Amanda
Amanda Potts is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania. She has seven years of clinical experience and offers a warm, relaxed style that puts people at ease quickly. Her sessions are conversational and collaborative so people can talk honestly without feeling judged.
Amanda has worked in a range of settings including corrections, crisis counseling, and primary care. She also has three years of experience with justice system involved youth.
Background and approach
That background informs how she listens and responds to stress, trauma, and challenging behaviors. In session she focuses on practical skills and clear goals. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, mindfulness, and solution-focused techniques depending on what a person needs.
Motivational Interviewing is also used when someone is working on change and wants focused support. Amanda helps with common concerns such as anxiety, stress, sleep problems, anger, depression, grief, and parenting questions. She also works with mood and personality concerns, ADHD, trauma and abuse, and issues around identity and discrimination.
Additional focuses include first responder issues, self-harm, and smoking or vaping cessation. The style is supportive and down-to-earth. Amanda aims to identify strengths and build practical steps that fit into daily life.
She values collaboration and helps people set goals they can use outside of sessions.
Online approaches that build skills and calm
Amanda uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy as core tools in online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, low mood, or panic. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete coping skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships.She also brings mindfulness and solution-focused ideas into sessions to help people stay present and set short-term, achievable goals. Finding the right mix of methods is collaborative. The therapist and client work together to pick approaches that fit the person’s needs, goals, and preferences and adjust them over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling adaptable to busy lives. These formats make it easier to fit sessions around work, family, or other commitments while maintaining continuity of care. Licensed professionals can use these options to teach skills, practice new responses, and check progress between meetings.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
Also works with
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
Next step
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