About Amanda
Amanda Garrick is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings 17 years of experience in mental health work in California. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, trauma and related challenges. Amanda strives to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk through hard moments and build clearer next steps.
She uses straightforward methods to help people manage symptoms and handle daily demands. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thought patterns and test new ways of thinking.
Background and approach
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple present-moment practices to reduce reactivity and increase focus. Amanda has a background working with people facing substance use concerns, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses attachment and abandonment issues, body image, communication problems, and ADHD-related struggles.
Her practice includes work with mood, trauma, and co-occurring conditions. Her clinical path includes a Master of Social Work and licensure as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW. Amanda’s experience includes crisis intervention and risk assessment alongside longer-term coping skills work.
She aims to meet people where they are and move at a pace that feels manageable. Sessions focus on clear goals, small experiments between meetings, and skills people can use right away. Amanda is based in California and offers services in English.
She frames therapy as a collaborative effort toward clearer routines, steadier mood, and improved daily functioning.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Amanda uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice thoughts that feed anxiety or low mood. CBT breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions, and helps people try small changes to see what works. Mindfulness Therapy teaches short attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase focus in everyday moments. These practices can help with stress, sleep trouble, and strong emotions.Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. Amanda works with each person to pick approaches that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan based on what helps most in daily life.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversation and seeing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging can work for quick check-ins, brief homework support, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep consistent work on skills between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English