Amanda Perkins, LMHC
Calm, practical therapy for life transitions
Details
| Name | Amanda Perkins |
|---|---|
| Credentials | LMHC |
| Based in | Florida |
| Licensed in | Florida |
| Session format | Online |
| Languages | English |
| Years in practice | 10 |
About Amanda
Amanda Perkins is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in Florida. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, relationship strain, or changes in life. Her approach aims to be calm, straightforward, and focused on what matters to each person.
Amanda uses narrative ideas to help people reframe painful stories about themselves. She also draws on acceptance and commitment approaches and attachment work to make practical changes people can use day to day.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-minded rather than full of technical jargon. Clients can expect a warm, nonjudgmental atmosphere where they can talk through difficult memories and current struggles. Amanda pays attention to how past experiences shape present choices and relationships.
She supports people working on self-esteem, parenting challenges, caregiving stress, compassion fatigue, and chronic health concerns. Her work includes help for those facing depression, bipolar concerns, ADHD, trauma and abuse, and intimacy or communication problems. She also addresses more specific issues like adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric concerns, body image, and cancer-related stress.
The focus is on practical steps people can try between sessions. With ten years of experience, Amanda combines client-centered listening with cognitive and behavioral tools when they fit. She encourages small, sustainable changes and builds on each person's strengths.
The aim is clearer self-understanding and better day-to-day coping.
What this therapist works with
Her listing names Stress, Anxiety, Family conflicts, Trauma and abuse among the things Amanda works with, alongside the areas below.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Compassion fatigue
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches listed
- Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Listed by Amanda among the ways she works.
- Attachment-Based Therapy: Listed by Amanda among the ways she works.
- Client-Centered Therapy: Listed by Amanda among the ways she works.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Listed by Amanda among the ways she works.
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Listed by Amanda among the ways she works.
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT): Listed by Amanda among the ways she works.
- Existential Therapy: Listed by Amanda among the ways she works.
- Jungian Therapy: Listed by Amanda among the ways she works.
- Mindfulness Therapy: Listed by Amanda among the ways she works.
- Motivational Interviewing: Listed by Amanda among the ways she works.
- Psychodynamic Therapy: Listed by Amanda among the ways she works.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: Listed by Amanda among the ways she works.
- Somatic Therapy: Listed by Amanda among the ways she works.
- Trauma-Focused Therapy: Listed by Amanda among the ways she works.
- Internal Family Systems: Listed by Amanda among the ways she works.
- Training stated: This directory copies the approaches a therapist names and does not check training records. Ask Amanda directly how much of the work is narrative and what a session usually looks like.
Narrative Therapy in this listing
Narrative Therapy appears in this therapist's own list of approaches. That tells you it is part of how she works. It does not tell you how much of a session it shapes, and this directory does not check or rate training.
If a narrative approach is what you are looking for, it is worth asking Amanda directly how she uses it and what a session usually looks like.
Online session options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Amanda combines Narrative Therapy with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people tell different stories about themselves and focus on values-based change. Narrative work looks at the stories people use to describe their lives and helps separate the person from the problem. ACT encourages noticing thoughts and feelings without getting controlled by them and then taking action consistent with personal values.She also uses Attachment-Based ideas to understand how early relationships influence current patterns. That work can help people improve communication, set boundaries, and feel more connected in important relationships. Amanda approaches choosing methods collaboratively and will work with each person to find what fits their goals, needs, and comfort level.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and body language cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit care into work, family, or caregiving routines while still using narrative, ACT, and attachment-based techniques.
Common questions about this listing
What kinds of concerns does Amanda address?
Amanda works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting challenges, caregiver stress, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and career-related stress.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is warm and conversational with a focus on listening first and finding practical steps to try. She blends narrative perspectives with acceptance and cognitive behavior tools to help people change unhelpful patterns.
How much experience does she have?
Amanda has ten years of clinical experience working with adults on a range of life transitions and emotional challenges.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She holds the LMHC credential and is licensed in Florida. Her practice is based in Florida.
Which languages are supported and can she work with international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not currently working with international clients.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give people multiple ways to connect depending on their needs.
How does pricing work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin therapy?
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