About Amanda
Amanda Jordan is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, relationship struggles, parenting concerns, and life transitions. She brings nearly three decades of experience to sessions and focuses on practical skills people can use right away. Amanda works with issues including trauma, self-esteem, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and career strain.
Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She emphasizes learning self-regulation skills so people can calm strong emotions and make clearer choices.
Background and approach
Conversations are tailored to each person’s situation, with concrete tools and short-term goals when those fit best. Amanda draws on several evidence-based approaches to guide her work. She uses client-centered methods to focus on what matters most to each individual.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds skills for tolerating distress and improving emotional regulation. She also incorporates mindfulness practices to build present-moment awareness and reduce rumination.
For relationship concerns she uses elements of the Gottman Method to improve communication and reduce conflict. Amanda explains options and helps people pick approaches that match their needs. Licensed in Indiana as an LCSW (licensed clinical social worker), she has worked in multiple settings over a long career.
Sessions are offered in English and are available through a mix of video, phone, chat, and text formats to fit different schedules and preferences.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Amanda uses Client-Centered Therapy to keep the focus on each person’s priorities and values. This approach means sessions start with what matters most to the client and grow from there, helping people feel heard and guided toward choices that fit their life.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT provides straightforward exercises to change unhelpful thinking and build new habits, useful for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy is another tool she uses for emotion regulation and distress tolerance; it teaches skills for handling intense feelings and improving day-to-day functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they choose or combine methods and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that’s preferred. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging let people keep steady contact between longer appointments and can be useful for practice, reminders, or brief reflections.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English