About Amanda
Amanda Parulski is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and parenting concerns. She focuses on practical ways to handle family problems and life transitions. She works with adults facing blended family issues, divorce or separation, caregiving strain, and pregnancy or childbirth challenges.
Amanda offers short-term, solution-focused work that aims to build on a person’s strengths. Sessions are straightforward and goal oriented. She encourages people to tell their story in their own words and to decide what changes feel right for them.
Background and approach
Her approach blends client-centered listening with narrative and solution-focused methods. That means Amanda listens closely, helps clients make sense of difficult events, and identifies small, concrete steps forward. She uses simple, workable strategies parents and caregivers can try between sessions.
Amanda brings eleven years of clinical experience as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW. She practices in Oregon and holds experience with hospice and end-of-life counseling as well as young adult and women’s issues. She aims to make the process clear and manageable for people who are nervous about starting therapy.
Her style is warm and direct. Amanda invites clients to set practical goals and to notice progress as it happens. She encourages small experiments people can test in daily life and reviews what works in the next session.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Amanda uses client-centered, narrative, and solution-focused approaches to shape online work. Client-centered work emphasizes listening and following the person’s priorities, which helps when stress or parenting demands feel overwhelming. Narrative Therapy looks at the stories people tell about their lives and helps separate problems from the person so new options can emerge. Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on practical, short-term steps and small changes that can produce quick relief for anxiety and family conflict.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Amanda will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coping plans, or when fitting therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to match appointments to work, caregiving, or other routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English