About Amanda
Amanda Buchanan is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience helping people handle stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and depression. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental presence and practical tools people can try between sessions. She aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for everyday life.
Amanda focuses on concerns that often overlap, such as social anxiety, panic, post-traumatic stress, and substance use. She also supports people navigating sexuality, gender dysphoria, and LGBT-related challenges.
Background and approach
Additional areas of focus include caregiver stress, codependency, family of origin issues, and alternative sex culture like BDSM and kink. Her style is down-to-earth and goal oriented. She uses clear strategies from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy alongside Motivational Interviewing to help people change patterns and meet personal goals.
Sessions mix skill teaching, problem solving, and checking what actually works for each person. Amanda practices in Kentucky and brings fifteen years of clinical work to each session. Her listing shows OR LCSW L14632 and TN LCSW 5122 as credential details.
She communicates in English and is open to working with international clients through online formats. People who choose her can expect a collaborative process. She helps set small, achievable steps and revisits them over time.
The emphasis is on steady progress and practical change rather than quick fixes.
How Amanda Uses Evidence-Based Methods Online
Amanda uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT often involves setting clear goals, tracking thoughts and moods, and practicing new coping strategies between sessions.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques that teach emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. DBT skills can help when intense emotions or relationship patterns get in the way of daily functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey. Amanda works collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person's needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts strategies over time based on what is helpful and what is not.
Online formats make this work flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or camera access is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between appointments, do brief skill practice, or get a shorter touchpoint during a busy day. These options are chosen to fit schedules and how people like to communicate.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- HIV / AIDS
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky, Tennessee, Oregon
- Languages
- English