- Years in practice
- 10
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Parenting issues
About Amanda
Amanda DiGenova is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York. She brings ten years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on practical, real-world help for parents and individuals facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and relationship strain. Amanda uses a straightforward, person-centered style.
She listens closely, helps people name what’s most troubling, and sets small, doable goals. Parents can expect help with family dynamics, blended family concerns, and practical strategies for parenting stress.
Background and approach
Her background includes work on complex issues such as trauma and abuse, domestic violence, substance use, and sexual orientation questions. Amanda also supports people dealing with body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and the emotional effects of cancer. She integrates a broad view of health, paying attention to how emotions, behavior, and everyday routines connect.
Therapy sessions often blend client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques and skills taught in dialectical behavior therapy. Mindfulness and existential questions about meaning may also be part of the work when they fit a person’s goals. Amanda aims to help clients build coping skills, reduce distress, and make choices that match their values.
She offers help for intimacy-related issues, commitment and communication problems, and challenges around kink and alternative sex cultures. Amanda frames change as a step-by-step process and encourages people to try practical tools between sessions.
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
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Amanda lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-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.
Therapeutic tools for online parenting and life concerns
Amanda commonly draws on client-centered therapy to create a collaborative space where the person's goals guide the work. This approach focuses on listening, empathy, and helping clients make choices that fit their values and family needs.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which breaks down problems into thoughts, behaviors, and feelings. CBT offers practical exercises and homework to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, low mood, and parenting stress. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used when emotional regulation and relationship skills are priorities; these skills teach emotion management, distress tolerance, and clearer communication.
Choosing an approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan over time. That collaborative process helps find what works best for parenting challenges, relationship strain, or individual concerns.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for face-to-face conversations and skill practice, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules.
Questions people ask about Amanda
What concerns does Amanda commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, and many family and parenting challenges.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is encouraging and motivating with a person-centered focus. She mixes listening with practical skill-building and goal setting.
How long has she practiced therapy?
She has ten years of clinical experience as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in New York.
Where is Amanda located and licensed?
She is based in New York and holds the credential NY LMHC.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
She is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats does she offer?
Sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How do I begin therapy with Amanda?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
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