About Amanda
Amanda Norah-Brooks is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Virginia with 20 years in the mental health field. She focuses on practical help for people facing family and parenting stress, anger, grief, and life adjustments. Amanda listens for strengths and builds on what already works in a person's life.
She helps people who are struggling with attention and concentration concerns, including ADHD-related challenges, by breaking problems into manageable steps.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to focus on real-world strategies for behavior and impulse management. Amanda also supports those coping with relationship strain and communication breakdowns. Her background includes long-term work with grief, trauma, and issues that come with major life changes.
She brings steady support when people face divorce, deployment transitions, cancer, hospice matters, or loss. Amanda attends to cultural and immigration-related stress as part of her client work. In sessions, Amanda uses practical, evidence-based therapeutic techniques to teach skills and practice new ways of responding.
She works collaboratively to set clear goals and test small changes between meetings. The tone is direct and compassionate, aimed at helping people see progress quickly. Care is offered in English through a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Amanda values straightforward steps, so parents and individuals often leave with specific tools to try before the next session.
Practical approaches and online care that fit your life
Amanda employs straightforward, evidence-based techniques that teach skills people can use right away. One approach focuses on behavioral strategies for managing impulsivity and attention challenges; it breaks larger tasks into smaller steps and builds routines to improve focus and follow-through. Another approach centers on grief and life transitions, helping people name what has changed, process strong emotions, and plan next steps to rebuild daily life.Finding the best approach is collaborative. Amanda will talk with each person about goals, what has helped before, and what feels realistic to try. Together they choose or adapt techniques so the work fits the person's needs, pace, and preferences rather than forcing a single method.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls let people meet face-to-face from different locations, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging allows ongoing check-ins and reminders between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into school, work, or caregiving schedules while keeping progress consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Multicultural concerns
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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