- Years in practice
- 8
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Amanda
Amanda Reid is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with eight years of clinical experience. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps parents can use. Amanda aims to make conversations feel straightforward and useful for people under stress.
She uses client-centered work to listen and help parents feel heard before offering strategies. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps her guide people to notice unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers concrete skills for managing strong emotions and reducing conflict.
Background and approach
Amanda's background includes outpatient mental health work and experience as a substance abuse counselor and group home therapist. That experience shaped her approach to addiction, trauma, and mood concerns. She brings real-world tools for coping with anxiety, depression, bipolar conditions, and ADHD-related struggles.
Parents often come for help with stress, anger, self-esteem, blended family issues, or parenting strain. Amanda supports people managing life changes like separation or caregiving stress and addresses attachment, abandonment, and adoption-related concerns. Sessions focus on building coping skills, grounding exercises, and clear behavior strategies.
She works collaboratively, helping people set small goals and practice new skills between sessions. Amanda keeps language simple and offers affirming feedback while encouraging self-care. Her aim is to help people build routines and thought patterns that feel sustainable.
Amanda practices in South Carolina and provides sessions in English. She uses video, phone, live chat, and text messaging so parents can choose the format that fits their day.
What Amanda works with
Everything Amanda lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Amanda helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- ADHD
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Amanda lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Practical approaches for online parenting support
Amanda uses client-centered work to create space for people to describe what feels hardest. This approach focuses on listening first, then shaping sessions around each person's priorities and parenting concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify thought patterns that make stress and anxiety worse and replaces them with small behavior changes. It is useful for managing depression, anxiety, ADHD-related routines, and everyday parenting challenges. Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds straightforward skills for handling intense emotions, improving communication, and reducing reactive responses during heated moments.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Amanda will talk through goals, try techniques together, and adjust methods based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist review progress and tweak plans so strategies fit family rhythms and daily life.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy parents. Video calls allow face-to-face work and role-play practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to get brief support or reminders between sessions. These options help fit therapy into work breaks, school pickups, or other routines.
Questions people ask about Amanda
What concerns does Amanda address?
Amanda works with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, depression, ADHD, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, bipolar issues, and coping with life changes. She also focuses on topics like abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment, blended family issues, and caregiver stress.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is client-centered and practical. Sessions combine listening with concrete skills from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to manage mood and behavior.
How much experience does she have?
She has eight years of clinical experience, including work in outpatient settings, a group home, and as a substance abuse counselor.
What credentials and location apply?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in South Carolina and provides services based in that state.
Which languages and international options are offered?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats does she use?
Sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies with location and scheduling; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Amanda?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.
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