About Amanda
Amanda Marvin is a licensed clinical social worker in North Carolina who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She works with concerns like parenting strain, compassion fatigue, addiction, relationship and family difficulties, trauma and grief. Amanda brings 11 years of experience to straightforward, practical therapy sessions.
Her style is warm and down-to-earth. She uses short-term skills and longer conversations depending on the problem. Sessions aim to build skills for managing strong emotions, improve communication, and restore daily functioning.
Background and approach
Amanda emphasizes clear steps you can try between sessions. In practice she draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Mindfulness, and Client-Centered Therapy. That mix lets her combine thinking-focused tools, emotion regulation skills, and mindfulness practices.
The result is a tailored plan that fits each person’s goals and pace. Amanda has worked with people facing mood disorders including bipolar concerns, as well as substance use and co-occurring issues. She also addresses family of origin problems, blended family challenges, infidelity, and related relationship patterns.
Her background supports work on control issues, commitment worries, dissociation, and disruptive mood dysregulation concerns. Sessions are offered in English and delivered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Amanda uses a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time and follows North Carolina practice standards under her LCSW credential.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Amanda commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work online. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that match personal values. It can help with anxiety, life transitions, and feelings of emptiness. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful habits, often useful for depression, anxiety, and stress management.Finding the right approach is part of the process and Amanda treats it as a team effort. She will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what works and what feels practical for the individual. Clients help set the pace and choose what to focus on in sessions.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or school schedules while using the therapeutic tools described above.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Depression
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English