About Amanda
Amanda Manske is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, family conflict, and trauma or abuse. She brings eight years of experience to conversations about tough moments. Amanda aims to make first steps feel more doable and respectful.
Amanda treats each person as an individual and tailors sessions to specific needs. She listens for the patterns behind worry, mood changes, and repeating conflicts.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical ways to reduce overwhelm and build clearer communication. She supports work on attachment and abandonment concerns, body image, caregiver stress, and issues with control or impulsivity. Amanda also addresses topics like forgiveness, guilt and shame, isolation, and finding life purpose.
Money and financial stress are included in the scope of discussion. Her method is straightforward: ask concrete questions, set small goals, and practice new skills between sessions. Conversations can include ways to handle arguments, soothe anxiety, or change unhelpful habits.
Progress is tracked in simple, visible steps. Amanda works with people across a range of moods and behavioral concerns, including mood disorders and the effects of narcissistic relationships. She matches her approach to what feels useful for each person.
The goal is to help people feel less stuck and more able to move forward.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Amanda uses evidence-based techniques that focus on changing unhelpful patterns and building coping skills. One common approach emphasizes identifying how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect so people can try different responses and reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms. Another approach focuses on improving communication and boundaries to address relationship strain and family conflict, using role practice and real-life planning to make changes more likely.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Amanda works with each person to weigh goals, preferences, and what has or hasnt helped before. Together they try methods that fit the person and then adjust as needed based on what feels useful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations; phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging supports shorter check-ins and ongoing reflection between appointments. These formats help fit therapy into busy lives and make it easier to keep steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English