About Amanda
Amanda Raether is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and problems with self-esteem. She brings a steady, patient manner to sessions and aims to make difficult feelings easier to talk about. Many people seek her help for sleep trouble, anger, grief, substance concerns, and life changes that feel overwhelming.
Amanda draws on seven years of clinical experience and a decade in social work settings across Kentucky.
Background and approach
She has provided individual and group therapy, mentorship, and advocacy for adults and children. That background gives her a practical understanding of common struggles like trauma, mood disorders, and coping after loss. Her style is warm, empathic, and empowering.
Amanda focuses on building a real working relationship first, then tailoring her approach to each person's needs. She balances short-term tools with deeper work when that is helpful. Clinically she uses client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior tools, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing.
Sessions typically include clear strategies you can try between meetings as well as space to talk through feelings and patterns. Amanda is based in Kentucky and works in English. She describes therapy as a collaborative process and helps people set achievable goals that fit their life and values.
If someone is ready to make a change, she will help them find a clear path forward.
How Amanda adapts proven approaches for online care
Amanda commonly uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. Client-centered work focuses on listening closely and helping people identify what matters to them, which supports clearer goals and stronger motivation. Cognitive behavioral therapy breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns.She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed. DBT offers concrete skills for handling intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can be useful for managing anger, mood swings, and relationship stress.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Amanda will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face when they want a closer interaction. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat or messaging helps people get support between meetings or communicate without scheduling a full session. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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