About Amanda
Amanda Marcum is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 18 years of clinical experience. She practices in Indiana and brings a straightforward, compassionate approach to therapy for adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD-related concerns. She focuses on building a comfortable, non-judgmental relationship.
Amanda believes that feeling understood by a therapist is the first step toward change. She helps people increase self-awareness and find movement when they feel stuck.
Background and approach
Her background includes work across multiple settings with adolescents, adults, and families on issues such as trauma and abuse, addictions, relationship and parenting struggles, LGBT stressors, and mood disorders. That breadth informs practical, real-world strategies rather than abstract theory. Amanda uses methods that emphasize the client’s goals and strengths.
She often draws on client-centered conversations, cognitive behavior strategies, mindfulness exercises, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused steps to help people identify small, doable changes. Sessions can take place by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging depending on what fits a person’s life. Amanda typically checks messages several times a day and aims to be responsive during weekday hours.
She encourages people to try different formats to discover what works best for them. To begin, Amanda asks people to share their story so she can tailor support to their priorities. She invites honest talk and aims to help each person move toward clearer choices and better daily functioning.
Approaches that guide online work
Amanda commonly uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral strategies when meeting people online. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening, acceptance, and following the person’s lead to understand what matters most. It helps when someone needs a supportive space to tell their story and be heard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety, depression, and help with ADHD-related routines.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Amanda will discuss goals, preferences, and daily demands and together decide which methods to try. She adjusts pacing and tactics based on progress and what the person reports is useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, each offering practical benefits. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier on low bandwidth and allow people to fit therapy into a work break. Live chat and text messaging offer brief check-ins, ongoing problem-solving, and flexible ways to process emotions between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent with everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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