About Amanda
Amanda McLean offers a straightforward, down-to-earth approach for people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, relationship strain, or life transitions. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Amanda is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, and has 13 years of experience helping clients untangle stress and rebuild confidence.
Amanda aims to create a warm, honest space where people feel heard. She treats each person as the expert on their life and partners with them to set clear, realistic goals.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be interactive and focused on small, doable changes that move things forward. Her work draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and make different choices. She also uses acceptance and commitment tools to help people notice what matters most and take values-based action.
Mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing are added when helpful to boost clarity and momentum. Amanda has supported people with a wide range of concerns, including LGBTQ matters, intimacy-related issues, parenting strain, grief, trauma, and career or identity questions. She also works with attention-related challenges and attachment concerns.
She describes her style as casual, compassionate, and practical. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through several online formats. Amanda’s practice is based in Washington and her listing notes both OR LCSW L13915 and WA LICSW LW60940913.
If someone wants a therapist who focuses on clear goals and steady progress, she is a practical option to consider.
Practical approaches for online therapy and change
Amanda uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different actions. This approach is useful for anxiety, low mood, and patterns that get in the way of daily life.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people identify their values and take small steps toward them even when difficult feelings are present. That work can help with life transitions, motivation, and relationship choices.
Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. Amanda works with each person to choose approaches that match their goals and comfort level, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and exercises, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can support brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it simpler to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or other responsibilities and to keep momentum between visits.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Oregon
- Languages
- English