About Amanda
Amanda Ihle is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 16 years of clinical experience. She practices in Oregon and focuses on practical, easy-to-understand strategies to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, relationship and intimacy struggles, and ADHD-related challenges. She spent eight years working with juvenile court addiction programs and providing on-campus services for school districts in southwest Washington.
For the past eight years she has worked in a level one trauma emergency room in Portland, seeing people in acute and high-stress situations.
Background and approach
Amanda creates a calm, open environment where clients can talk about what’s on their mind without judgment. She leans on straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help people notice patterns and make small changes that add up.
Her approach also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy and attachment-based ideas to help clients clarify values, build meaningful connections, and tolerate strong feelings. Sessions emphasize practical steps and skills that relate to daily life, such as sleep routines, communication habits, and coping with big transitions. People meet Amanda for a mix of problem-solving and steady support.
She frames progress as small, steady gains and works collaboratively to set realistic goals. She encourages people to take the first step and recognizes that starting therapy takes courage.
Practical approaches online for day-to-day challenges
Amanda uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness in ways that people can apply between sessions. CBT helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with small experiments and behavior changes. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus.She also uses acceptance and commitment therapy to help people clarify their values and take action even when emotions are hard. ACT can be useful for managing ongoing worries, grief, or the frustration that comes with ADHD-related struggles. Amanda approaches these methods collaboratively and will work with each person to find what fits their needs and goals.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or you prefer no camera, live chat suits short check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing, brief communication between appointments. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and make it easier to keep up with regular skill practice.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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