About Amanda
Amanda Dodd is a Virginia LCSW with 14 years of clinical experience. She offers a supportive, person-focused approach and respects each client's values and goals. She is comfortable working with people who identify as LGBT and those exploring kink or alternative sex cultures.
Amanda aims to help people manage symptoms like anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and the everyday strain of life changes and caregiving. Her work centers on the client and what matters most to them.
Background and approach
She listens first, then helps people set practical goals. Sessions often include skills for managing strong emotions and routines to improve sleep and focus. She uses straightforward language and prefers strategies clients can try between sessions.
Amanda draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and change behaviors. She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation and mindfulness practices to reduce stress. Motivational interviewing guides conversations when people are weighing big decisions or change.
She supports people facing addiction, relationship struggles, parenting stress, grief, and career concerns. Amanda also addresses attachment and abandonment wounds that affect intimacy and communication. Her approach is sex-positive and nonjudgmental, so clients can bring sensitive topics into the room without worry.
People who choose Amanda can expect a collaborative plan. She helps break larger problems into smaller, doable steps. Progress is measured by practical change in daily life and increased ability to cope with challenges.
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It means sessions start with the client's priorities and move at their pace, helping people name what matters and set achievable goals.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. It works well for anxiety, depression, sleep difficulties, and problems with attention or routine. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds specific skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods together, and adjust plans based on what helps. Clients often combine techniques from different approaches to fit their needs.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or be used when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging provide short check-ins, quick skill practice, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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