About Amanda
Amanda Dodd is a licensed clinical social worker in Virginia who offers thoughtful, client-centered care. She brings 14 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and relationship challenges. She provides both faith-based and secular support and describes her practice as kink-friendly, poly-friendly, and sex-positive.
Her approach starts with listening. She believes people know their own stories and builds on strengths already present. Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer thinking to reduce stress and improve daily life.
Background and approach
Amanda uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and patterns. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotional regulation and mindfulness techniques to reduce tension moment to moment. She helps with many life challenges including grief, parenting strain, career stress, addiction, chronic illness, and anger.
Additional areas she supports are attachment and abandonment concerns, body image, blended family issues, and intimacy-related matters. People who work with her can expect respectful, nonjudgmental conversations about values and goals. She supports clients through changes such as separation, recovery from substance use, and caregiving stress.
Amanda aims to help people find clearer choices and greater balance in daily life.
Practical approaches for online care and skill building
Amanda combines client-centered care with cognitive behavioral and dialectical skills to help people address specific problems and improve everyday coping. Client-centered work focuses on listening and building on the person’s strengths so goals come from the client. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thinking patterns and teaches steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Dialectical behavior therapy emphasizes emotional regulation and practical skills for stress and strong emotions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped before. Together they will try strategies that fit the situation and adjust methods as progress is made.
Online sessions can be done in several ways to suit different needs. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins, skill practice, or brief coaching between longer sessions. These options make scheduling easier and let people keep therapy going around work, caregiving, or busy days.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English