About Amanda
Amanda Sifonte is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage anxiety, depression, addiction, and chronic stress. She focuses on practical support that helps people feel heard and more in control. Her style is straightforward and respectful, with an emphasis on collaboration and clear goals.
In early sessions Amanda explores what led someone to seek help and what they hope to change. She looks for strengths and patterns that might be getting in the way.
Background and approach
From there she and the client build a simple plan with achievable steps. Sessions are paced to match each person’s needs. Amanda draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them to the individual.
She aims to make therapy useful and understandable, not jargon-heavy. Her work often addresses stress from caregiving, communication problems, grief, guilt, and loneliness. People can expect direct but compassionate coaching on coping skills, boundaries, and self-care.
She also supports work on self-esteem, forgiveness, and social anxiety. Amanda’s approach balances immediate relief strategies with longer-term personal growth. Based in New York, Amanda brings eight years of clinical experience to her practice.
She emphasizes respect and collaboration in every session. Her goal is to help people build resilience and create meaningful change in everyday life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Amanda uses evidence-based techniques that are easy to use in remote work. One common approach focuses on skill-building for stress and anxiety, teaching breathing, grounding, and practical routines that reduce daily tension. These are taught in short exercises and repeated until they feel familiar.Another common technique targets patterns of thought and behavior that contribute to depression or addictive coping. This involves noticing unhelpful thoughts, testing them with new experiments, and trying small changes to daily routines to see what helps. It’s a step-by-step process that aims for gradual, measurable shifts.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Amanda will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they choose strategies and adjust them over time so the work fits the person’s life and pace.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client work face to face when more interaction is useful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or fitting support into a busy day. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent and to try techniques between sessions.
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- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English