About Amanda
Amanda Evans Powell is a licensed clinical social worker in Maine with 16 years of professional experience. She focuses on everyday concerns like stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and coping with life changes. She also helps people managing attention and focus challenges and those facing grief, trauma, or relationship strain.
Amanda works in a straightforward, respectful way. She treats each person as the expert on their own story and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and down-to-earth, with room for emotion and problem solving. Her approach often blends client-centered conversation with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. That means she listens first, then offers simple skills for spotting thought patterns, reducing overwhelm, and practicing calm.
Clients learn concrete steps they can use between sessions. Amanda has supported people through major life transitions like divorce, pregnancy and childbirth, and career changes. She also addresses caregiving stress, body image, and the fallout from abuse or post-traumatic stress.
Work with attention, impulsivity, and panic symptoms is part of her practice as well. Sessions aim to help people feel more able to make choices and move forward. Amanda offers phone, video, chat, and text formats so people can pick what fits their life.
She uses plain language and a steady approach to keep things manageable.
How Amanda's Approaches Work Online
Amanda uses client-centered therapy to prioritize each person's unique experience. That means she listens closely and follows what matters most to the client, helping them set goals and make choices that feel right.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors. CBT can help with anxiety, panic attacks, mood changes, and managing day-to-day stress by giving clear, practical skills.
Mindfulness techniques are used to teach simple ways to calm the mind and reduce reactivity. These practices support people dealing with overwhelm, trauma responses, and ongoing worry by building moment-to-moment awareness.
Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the person to identify goals, try different tools, and adjust methods based on what helps most. This makes sure the plan fits the client's needs and preferences rather than being imposed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues. Phone calls are a good option when less bandwidth or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging allow for brief check-ins, homework support, or ongoing coaching-style contact between sessions. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English