About Amanda
Amanda DiGenova uses a client-centered approach as the foundation of her work. She places the person and their goals at the center of each session and helps them find practical ways to manage stress, anxiety, and relationship strain. Amanda is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and she brings ten years of clinical experience to her practice in New York.
Amanda helps people cope with grief, depression, and addiction-related concerns. She also supports those dealing with family and parenting stress, self-esteem struggles, and intimacy-related issues.
Background and approach
Her approach is straightforward and steady, offering clear steps and skills people can use between sessions. Her work draws on techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to address unhelpful thoughts, strong emotions, and patterns that get in the way of daily life. Mindfulness practices and existential ideas are woven in to help people reconnect with values and purpose.
Amanda describes her style as encouraging, motivating, and positive. She also attends to complex topics such as codependency, blended family challenges, body image, and issues related to sexual orientation and alternative sexual cultures. Amanda is comfortable addressing problems connected to chronic illness, caregiver stress, and the emotional fallout of trauma or loss.
Sessions focus on clear goals and usable tools. Amanda works with each person to build skills for coping with anger, career stress, bipolar-related challenges, and life transitions. Her aim is to help people move toward greater balance and more manageable day-to-day living.
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Amanda blends client-centered methods with cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness in online sessions. Client-centered work emphasizes the client's goals and perspective, helping people set priorities and guide the direction of therapy. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and habit change. Mindfulness practices teach simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Amanda will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up in daily life. Together they pick strategies to try and adjust those approaches over time based on what helps most. The therapist frames progress as a series of small, practical steps toward clearer thinking and steadier moods.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and use of worksheets. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when someone needs more flexible timing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel while keeping focus on real-life skills and problem solving.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English