About Amanda
Amanda Costa is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with five years of professional experience based in Utah. She creates a direct, calm space where people can talk about what feels hard and figure out next steps together. Amanda works with adults facing a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, relationship strain, career stress, and ADHD.
She focuses on practical ways to manage symptoms and rebuild routines that feel sustainable day to day.
Background and approach
Her approach centers on listening first. Amanda uses client-centered methods to understand each person's values and priorities, then brings in tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to challenge unhelpful thinking patterns. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance when feelings become overwhelming.
For people carrying trauma, she can incorporate eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in collaboration with the client. Sessions emphasize clear steps and small experiments so progress feels noticeable between meetings. Amanda aims to make beginning therapy straightforward.
She supports people who are working through life changes, parenting stress, intimacy questions, process addictions, or burnout from caregiving or work. She speaks English and offers sessions to clients both inside and outside the United States.
Approach-focused work through online therapy
Amanda draws from client-centered therapy to begin. That means sessions start with the client's concerns and priorities, and the conversation guides which tools are used. This approach helps people feel heard and keeps work focused on what they want to change.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood. CBT involves identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing small behavioral changes to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress-driven habits. Those practical exercises can be done between sessions to build momentum.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Amanda will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then choose methods together. That collaborative planning helps make sessions feel relevant from the start and allows adjustments as needs shift.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth talk and skills practice, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and text options are handy for quick check-ins or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These choices make therapy more flexible for people balancing work, parenting, or busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
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