Amanda Whichard, LPC, LPC-MHSP

Amanda Whichard is a licensed counselor practicing in Mississippi. She brings six years of professional experience to sessions and helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and major life changes. Amanda emphasizes clients' strengths and supports them as they take steps toward a more satisfying life.

Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. She uses practical tools to address mood disorders, panic, obsessive thoughts, and symptoms of bipolar and depression. She also helps people dealing with caregiver strain, compassion fatigue, codependency, and communication problems.

Amanda draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns. She also incorporates DBT skills for emotional regulation and EMDR techniques when trauma processing is needed. Mindfulness and motivational strategies appear in sessions to build steady daily routines and increase motivation for change.

Sessions focus on clear goals and doable steps. Clients work on skills they can use between meetings, such as grounding, thought records, and short behavior experiments. Amanda aims to make progress feel measurable and realistic.

She holds a Master of Science and is licensed as an LPC and LPC-MHSP. Amanda offers a calm, encouraging presence and a practical focus for people ready to work on anxiety, grief, recovery from trauma, or life transitions.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Amanda commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try small, practical behavior changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, panic, and obsessive thinking. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal communication.

When trauma is central to someone's symptoms, Amanda may incorporate Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to support processing of distressing memories. She pairs trauma-focused work with mindfulness and motivational strategies to build stable coping and renewed direction. Choosing the right approach is part of the work together; Amanda helps clients decide which tools match their goals and comfort level so therapy fits individual needs.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face connection for skills practice, phone calls use less bandwidth and can fit a work break, and messaging or chat offers brief check-ins or homework support between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing daily life.