About Amanda
Amanda Spahn is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage anxiety, depression, stress, and big life changes. She focuses on practical steps that make day-to-day life feel more manageable. Her style is straightforward and warm, aimed at building self-understanding and stronger coping skills.
Amanda draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address issues like panic, obsessive thoughts, and mood shifts. She also supports people coping with attachment wounds, codependency, guilt, and shame.
Background and approach
Sessions often include goal-setting and concrete tools to handle difficult moments and reduce overwhelm. Many clients seek help around self-esteem, finding life purpose, or women's mental health concerns. Amanda works with smoking and vaping cessation as a behavioral goal when it relates to a person’s wellbeing.
She pays attention to how worry, avoidance, and control habits show up in daily life and offers strategies to change them. With three years of clinical experience, Amanda blends practical exercises with reflective conversation. She aims to create a calm, non-judgmental space for people to name patterns and try new ways of coping.
Her practice is based in Utah and she speaks English. Therapy with Amanda uses a collaborative approach where the person and therapist shape the work together. Sessions can include short-term skill-building or longer work focused on deeper emotional patterns, depending on each person’s goals and needs.
How therapeutic methods translate to online help
Amanda uses evidence-based techniques that focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and building new habits. Cognitive-style work looks at patterns of thinking that increase anxiety or depressive feelings and teaches practical ways to test and reframe those thoughts. This approach helps with panic, social anxiety, and low mood.She also employs behavioral strategies that break cycles of avoidance and compulsive habits. Those methods include gradual exposure to feared situations and creating small, repeatable actions to reduce compulsions and improve daily routines. This kind of work supports people with obsessions, phobias, and habit change like smoking or vaping cessation.
Choosing a therapeutic approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss options with each person and adjust methods based on goals, comfort, and what feels useful. Together they track progress and switch strategies when something isn’t working.
Online therapy with Amanda is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions can fit shorter check-ins or low bandwidth situations, and chat or text are useful for ongoing support between meetings. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English