About Amanda
Amanda Vaughan is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 13 years in the field. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and trauma. Her approach is straightforward and caring, aimed at giving practical skills people can use day to day.
Amanda uses mindfulness and cognitive tools to build coping skills. She also brings ideas from dialectical behavior and existential work to help people understand patterns and values.
Background and approach
Sessions are tailored to what each person needs, with a warm and direct style. Her background includes crisis intervention and group therapy, along with work in intensive mental health treatment settings. That range of experience informs how she supports people through big life changes and addiction concerns.
She pays attention to how family history, attachment, and identity shape current challenges. <brAmanda often helps people facing issues like grief, intimacy concerns, body image, codependency, and parenting strain. She also addresses topics such as kink and alternative sex culture, gender dysphoria, blended family dynamics, and compassion fatigue. The focus is on building behavior changes and clearer communication.
Sessions move at a practical pace, with concrete exercises and skills practice. Amanda aims to make therapy a collaborative process where goals are clear and progress is measurable. She works with adults in Massachusetts and conducts sessions in English.
How Amanda’s approaches translate to online therapy
Amanda uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it focuses on practical steps and measurable changes.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved communication. DBT skills can help when feelings are intense or when relationships keep repeating the same conflict patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amanda will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and life context, then recommend a mix of methods. Treatment is collaborative and adapts as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and deeper exchange, while phone calls use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for short check-ins, homework, or when written reflection feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules and changing needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English