Amanda Phillips, LICSW, LISW

Amanda Phillips is a licensed clinical social worker who uses clear, practical methods to help people handle stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She holds LICSW and LISW credentials and has two decades of experience in the field. Amanda frames therapy as a collaborative process and encourages small, steady steps toward change.

Her work often focuses on trauma, intimate relationship challenges, and issues that affect daily life like sleep, parenting, and work stress. She also supports people coping with grief, codependency, isolation, and feelings of guilt or shame. Veterans and those affected by domestic violence or post-traumatic stress are among the populations she has experience with.

Amanda draws from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thought patterns and try different behaviors. She also uses acceptance and commitment therapy to clarify values and build willingness to face difficult feelings. Client-centered and dialectical behavior therapy approaches shape how she listens and teaches new coping skills.

Sessions aim to be practical and grounded. Expect straightforward conversations about what’s working and what isn’t. The focus is on skills you can use between meetings and choices you can apply to everyday situations.

She works with adults seeking support for life changes, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and emotional wounds from past experiences. Amanda welcomes questions about her methods and the ways therapy might fit into each person’s life.

How Amanda’s approaches fit into online therapy

Amanda commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT is practical and often focuses on small experiments to change patterns that cause worry or low mood. She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and build willingness to face difficult feelings while taking meaningful action. Client-centered work shapes how she listens and responds, creating space for each person to lead the story of change.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Amanda works together with each person to choose techniques that match their goals and daily life. She will check in about what feels useful and adjust methods as needed so therapy stays relevant and manageable.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice; phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people share thoughts or update a therapist between sessions and can fit into busy schedules. These options aim to make it easier to keep therapy consistent and adaptable to real life.