Amanda Jordan, LCSW

Amanda Jordan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 27 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She works with adults facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, trauma and changes at work or in life. Her approach is practical and direct, focused on skills people can use the next day. Amanda favors clear tools for self-regulation and coping. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) alongside client-centered conversation and mindfulness practices to help people notice patterns and try different responses. Sessions emphasize small, manageable steps rather than big promises. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills and components of the Gottman Method for relationship concerns when useful. These methods are used to teach emotion regulation, improve communication, and reduce reactivity. Amanda tailors conversations and exercises to fit each person’s daily life. Her background includes long clinical experience across varied settings, with work on trauma, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related struggles, and family-of-origin issues. She pays attention to how past losses and attachment wounds shape current behavior. Amanda helps people build routines that support mood and focus. Practical problem solving is a theme in her work. Clients can expect to learn concrete coping strategies, practice new skills in session, and set realistic goals between meetings. The focus is on steady progress and learning to handle hard moments better over time.

CBT, Client-Centered Care, and Online Options

Amanda often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and acting; this works well for anxiety, stress, and mood challenges. Client-Centered Therapy is also part of her approach, which means sessions focus on the person's priorities and the therapist follows the client's lead to build understanding and support.

She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when strong emotions or relationship reactivity are a concern, teaching practical tools for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process - the therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit, and adjust the plan as needed so it meets each person's needs and preferences.

Online therapy makes it easier to use these approaches across different formats. Video calls let people work face to face for skills practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins when schedules are tight or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or following up on homework between sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.