About Amanda
Amanda Sholty greets people who are ready to ask for help and offers a calm, steady way forward. She honors that reaching out is hard and meets each person where they are. Amanda uses clear, practical steps to address current struggles so people feel understood and can begin to change what isn’t working.
She brings six years of experience across community behavioral health, domestic violence services, healthcare, and work with veterans.
Background and approach
Amanda also supports caregivers who are caring for someone with dementia. She holds a Florida Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential (LCSW) and draws on that background in her practical approach. Amanda’s style is person-centered and strengths-based.
She centers each person’s priorities and treats them as the expert in their life. Sessions focus on small, doable changes - new coping skills, clearer boundaries, or ways to ease persistent worry. Her toolkit includes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment-Based methods, client-centered techniques, and Gottman-informed work for relationship concerns.
These methods are used in simple, everyday ways rather than technical language. Common concerns she addresses include stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, caregiver stress, addiction and compulsive behaviors, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Amanda also helps with life transitions, career stress, and body image or self-esteem struggles.
People who choose Amanda can expect a collaborative tone. She helps set goals together and the pace is shaped by each person’s needs and comfort level.
How Amanda’s approaches work online
Amanda uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in simple, practical ways. ACT helps people notice difficult thoughts and focus on values-driven action instead of getting stuck. CBT breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and builds concrete skills to shift unhelpful patterns.She also draws on attachment-based and client-centered techniques to strengthen how people relate to themselves and others. Those methods help with intimacy, communication problems, abandonment or attachment concerns, and relationship stress. Together with the client she will decide which approach fits best based on goals and preferences; that choice is a collaborative process and can change over time.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexible options. Video lets people talk face to face and work through emotion; phone sessions can be useful when less bandwidth or no camera is preferred. Live chat or text messaging supports shorter check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep consistent progress regardless of location.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English