About Amanda
Amanda Grant is a licensed clinical social worker with 14 years of practice in New York. She brings experience from roles as a staff clinician, supervisor, therapist, and administrator. Amanda aims to create honest, compassionate sessions where people can begin change at their own pace.
She helps people dealing with relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, parenting stress, and self-esteem challenges. Her work often focuses on attachment patterns and the effects of early childhood or sexual trauma.
Background and approach
Amanda also supports people facing adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, body image concerns, and communication problems. Her approach is practical and person-centered. Amanda listens for what matters most and builds steps that fit each person’s life.
She draws on lessons learned across many settings to offer a steady, flexible way forward. Many clients come for help with commitment worries, codependency, or blended family transitions. She also addresses behavioral needs tied to emotional disabilities and conditions like Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder.
Sessions aim to improve everyday functioning and emotional understanding. Amanda works in English and practices in New York as an LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She welcomes conversations with people who are ready for change and who want a clear, supportive space to work through hard issues.
How Amanda’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Amanda uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on healing relationships and processing trauma. One approach she often applies centers on understanding attachment patterns and how early relationships shape current behavior; this helps people notice repeated patterns and try new ways of relating. Another common focus is trauma-informed work that helps people address the effects of sexual trauma or early adverse experiences through paced, supportive conversations.Finding the right therapeutic approach is something she does together with each person. She listens to goals, preferences, and life demands and then recommends techniques that match those needs. That collaborative process may shift over time as progress and priorities change.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for her work. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper emotional work and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging let people keep momentum between sessions and fit support into busy days. These options aim to make it easier to get consistent help and to keep therapy on track with a person’s schedule.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English