About Amanda
Amanda Perkins is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in Florida. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. Amanda aims to make therapy feel straightforward and approachable for people who are worried or overwhelmed.
She uses a mix of somatic work, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and cognitive methods to help people notice how their bodies and thoughts respond to stress. Sessions often involve simple grounding exercises, talking through difficult moments, and building small skills to cope day to day.
Background and approach
Amanda explains options plainly and adjusts the pace to what each person needs. With ten years of experience as an LMHC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor - she has worked with many concerns including grief, relationship strain, parenting stress, burnout, and issues related to ADHD and bipolar moods.
Her background includes helping people navigate life changes and chronic illness challenges with practical strategies rather than long theory talks. Amanda pays particular attention to attachment and relationship patterns, using that understanding to improve communication and emotional safety. She also supports people facing identity and intimacy-related concerns and those coping with career stress or caregiving burdens.
People who choose her can expect an empathetic, steady presence and clear steps toward change. The work is collaborative: Amanda helps set goals, track progress, and adjust techniques so therapy stays relevant to daily life.
How Amanda’s approaches translate to online therapy
Amanda combines somatic-informed work with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-focused ideas to support people in online sessions. Somatic-informed work helps people notice bodily signs of stress and learn simple grounding practices that can be done during video or phone sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed steps toward them while learning to sit with hard feelings. Attachment-Based ideas look at how early relationship patterns show up now, helping improve communication and emotional safety in current relationships.Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to goals, try different techniques, and adjust what she uses based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist set goals together and review progress so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, continue work during life transitions, and practice skills between sessions. The variety of formats also lets people choose how they feel most comfortable sharing and working through concerns.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English