About Amanda
Amanda Miller-Hodges is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and problems with relationships and parenting. She offers straightforward support for overwhelming emotions, life changes, and struggles with substance use or impulsivity. Amanda speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can try right away.
She uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. That can include tools to notice and accept difficult feelings, skills to change unhelpful behaviors, and strategies to improve communication.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to reduce immediate distress while building longer-term coping skills. With 15 years of experience, Amanda has worked in many settings and with a wide range of concerns. That background includes helping people facing trauma, grief, mood disorders, addiction, and relationship problems.
She has also led outpatient skills groups that teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Amanda holds the Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential and is also a Licensed Professional Counselor. She practices in Florida and conducts sessions in English.
Her approach is practical and goal-focused, with attention to what each person needs in the moment. New clients begin by completing an intake questionnaire and scheduling a first session. Amanda helps people clarify immediate next steps and creates a plan that fits their life and goals.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Amanda uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help people make practical changes and manage intense emotions. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. DBT teaches concrete skills in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness to handle strong feelings and improve relationships.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Amanda will work with each person to choose and adapt methods based on their goals, needs, and what feels most helpful. She checks in regularly and shifts strategies when something isn’t working as hoped.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face when schedules allow. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for quick check-ins, skill practice, or when writing is easier than talking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Georgia
- Languages
- English