Amanda Garrick, LCSW
Practical, skills-focused support for everyday parenting challenges
Book with Amanda- Years in practice
- 17
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Amanda
Amanda Garrick is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 17 years of clinical experience in California. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and parenting concerns. Amanda uses clear, practical steps so people can try approaches between sessions and see what helps.
Her background includes long work in community mental health and social services, where she supported people dealing with trauma, substance use, and mood challenges. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Human Development from California Polytechnic State University and a Master of Social Work from California State University Long Beach.
Background and approach
Her LCSW credential is noted as CA LCSW. Amanda often brings cognitive behavioral techniques into sessions to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change patterns of behavior. She also uses mindfulness approaches to help with stress, sleep, and attention.
These methods are explained in simple, step-by-step ways so they can be practiced in daily life. Sessions are conversational and focused on practical goals. Amanda helps people build coping skills, manage relationship and intimacy-related issues, and work through grief or life changes.
She also addresses caregiver stress, body image concerns, and issues tied to attachment or avoidance. Her experience includes crisis intervention and risk assessment, so she is comfortable helping people during intense moments as well as ongoing struggles. Amanda aims to create a supportive space where parents and individuals can develop steady routines and clearer communication.
People who prefer direct, skills-based therapy with an emphasis on real-world practice may find her approach useful. She speaks English and works with adults in California.
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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Amanda lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How Amanda Uses CBT and Mindfulness Online
Amanda often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes. CBT is practical and goal-focused, and it can help with anxiety, low mood, sleep problems, and some parenting challenges.She also uses mindfulness therapy to teach simple attention and breathing exercises. Mindfulness helps reduce stress, improve sleep, and steady the mind when emotions feel overwhelming.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Amanda will talk with each person about goals and preferences and suggest techniques to try. Together they adjust methods over time to find what actually helps in daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets people use visual cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Messaging and live chat offer short, focused exchanges for homework, breathing practices, or brief progress updates. These options make therapy more flexible for parents and busy adults, letting people fit work on coping skills into real schedules.
Questions people ask about Amanda
What concerns does Amanda commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, and parenting concerns.
What is her therapeutic style?
She offers a practical, skills-based style. Sessions focus on clear steps, manageable exercises, and applying tools between meetings.
What experience does she bring?
She has 17 years of experience working in mental health and social services, including crisis intervention and risk assessment.
What credentials and region are listed?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, listed as CA LCSW, and her practice is based in California.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are offered?
Sessions can take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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