About Amanda
Amanda Shelton is a licensed mental health counselor in Indiana with 14 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and mood disorders. Amanda aims to offer straightforward support for painful moments and confusing feelings.
She works with people coping with trauma and abuse, panic attacks, bipolar disorder, and addiction concerns. Amanda also helps with body image, caregiver stress, communication problems, guilt, shame, and social anxiety.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize practical coping strategies and steady emotional support. Her style is collaborative and paced to each person's needs. She listens for what matters most and helps set small, achievable goals.
Amanda guides clients toward healthier routines, clearer thinking, and more compassionate self-talk. Evidence-based therapeutic techniques are part of her practice. She uses approaches that focus on skills, patterns, and processing difficult memories to reduce symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning.
Progress often includes learning new ways to respond to stress and practicing them between sessions. People choose Amanda when they want calm, direct help to manage symptoms and rebuild confidence. She aims to make therapy manageable for busy lives, offering options that fit different schedules and preferences.
Her work centers on steady support, practical tools, and helping people reconnect with their strengths.
How Amanda’s approaches work online and in session
Amanda uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills and processing. One common approach she draws on teaches concrete coping skills for anxiety and panic - breathing, grounding, and step-by-step exposure to reduce avoidance. This helps people who feel overwhelmed by sudden symptoms or social fears.Another element emphasizes processing difficult events and memories at a pace the client can handle. That approach helps people make sense of traumatic experiences and reduce the intensity of related reactions. It supports improved mood, clearer thinking, and fewer intrusive memories.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Amanda will work with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust based on what helps. She values collaboration and sets small, measurable steps so progress feels achievable.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for in-depth work, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or comfort with video is limited. Live chat and text messaging provide brief check-ins, real-time support between sessions, and options for people who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue steady work toward emotional goals.
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- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English