About Amanda
Amanda Tindell is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Texas who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and problems with self-esteem. She offers a calm, down-to-earth approach that centers the person's experience and practical steps for coping. Amanda aims to make therapy feel straightforward and relatable for someone juggling daily pressures.
She draws on several established methods to tailor sessions to each person. That can mean focusing on present-day thinking patterns, teaching skills to manage strong emotions, or using mindfulness exercises to reduce tension.
Background and approach
Amanda emphasizes collaboration so people leave with small, useful tools they can try between sessions. Her practice also addresses relationship challenges, sleep difficulties, attention concerns like ADHD, and substance use issues. Amanda works on topics such as body image, caregiver stress, family of origin concerns, and reactions after natural or human-caused disasters.
She approaches hard subjects like domestic violence, dissociation, and guilt with care and steady pacing. With five years of clinical experience, Amanda blends empathic listening with concrete strategies. She supports people who want help making changes, rebuilding confidence, or finding better ways to cope with life events.
Sessions aim to be practical, focused, and tailored to what matters most to the individual. Therapy is conducted in English and follows Texas practice standards under her LCSW credential. Amanda uses a collaborative style so people can set goals and move at a pace that feels right for them.
How Amanda Uses Therapeutic Approaches Online
Amanda uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing as two primary tools in online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small changes in thinking and behavior to reduce anxiety and lift mood. EMDR is used to help people process distressing memories by pairing guided attention with focused recall to reduce the intensity of past events.She also draws from Client-Centered Therapy, which centers the person’s goals and lived experience. That means shaping sessions around what the client wants to address and adjusting pace and techniques together. Finding the right approach is part of the work, and Amanda collaborates with each person to decide whether CBT, EMDR, client-centered methods, or a mix will best meet their needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills, while phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter, frequent check-ins and written summaries of strategies. These options aim to make therapy more flexible so people can fit care into busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English