About Amanda
Dr. Amanda Antis is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California. She has 15 years of clinical experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD.
She focuses on respectful, compassionate care and works to meet each person where they are. Her sessions are straightforward and practical. She listens first, then maps a plan that fits a person's goals and life.
That plan can include short-term strategies for coping and longer work on relationships, self-esteem, or trauma recovery.
Background and approach
Dr. Antis uses a mix of well-known approaches such as acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioral tools, and client-centered work. She adapts techniques to the individual's needs rather than forcing one method on everyone.
This helps people build skills they can use between sessions. She has helped people facing addiction, grief, anger, bipolar mood concerns, and major life changes. Communication problems, attachment issues, body image, and forgiveness are also areas she addresses.
Her experience includes working through trauma and domestic violence impacts. Sessions can focus on immediate, solution-focused steps or on deeper patterns that keep problems recurring. Dr.
Antis frames the work as collaborative - clients set goals and she helps track progress. People who want clear tools and steady support tend to do well with her approach.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and commitment therapy helps people notice thoughts without getting stuck in them and focus on actions that match their values. It can ease anxiety, low motivation, and the frustration that comes with ADHD symptoms. Cognitive behavioral therapy breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for worry, depression, and managing mood swings.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, comfort level, and daily life. That plan can change over time as progress is tracked and needs shift.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls provide face-to-face conversation for deeper work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send quick updates, practice skills between sessions, or check in during busy days. These options make it easier to fit steady therapy into work, school, and family routines while using the therapeutic approaches described above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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