About Amanda
Amanda Gale is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with twelve years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and parenting pressures. Amanda takes a practical, down-to-earth approach and aims to help people build coping skills and everyday confidence.
She uses a person-centered style that puts the client in control of their progress. Sessions often focus on clear goals, developing coping strategies, and strengthening existing abilities.
Background and approach
Amanda prefers brief, focused work and often structures help into short time frames when that fits a person's needs. Her background includes work with individuals dealing with grief, addiction concerns, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people facing life changes such as divorce, career shifts, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and midlife adjustments.
Practical problem solving and clear planning are regular parts of her sessions. Amanda draws from several therapy methods including acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused work, cognitive-behavioral tools, and dialectical skills. She aims to match techniques to a person’s situation rather than use one fixed method.
The focus is on usable skills, not jargon. Clients can expect a supportive guide who helps identify strengths and build confidence. Amanda emphasizes realistic steps and choices people can practice outside sessions.
She believes small, steady changes lead to a more satisfying life.
Approach-driven online therapy for practical change
Amanda uses acceptance and commitment ideas that help people notice difficult thoughts and choose actions that match their values. This approach is useful for anxiety, low motivation, and navigating life changes.She also incorporates attachment-based work to look at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and trust. That work can help with communication problems, abandonment concerns, and building healthier bonds.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Amanda will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then mix methods that fit the situation. The plan is adjusted over time based on what is helping and what feels useful to the person.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video can be used when visual cues are helpful, while phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging offer quick check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Wyoming, South Dakota
- Languages
- English