About Amanda
Amanda Garrick is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in California with 17 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction issues, trauma, and ADHD. Amanda aims to create a straightforward, supportive atmosphere where people can talk about what feels hardest to them and begin making practical changes.
She trained in social work and has long experience in community mental health settings. That background shaped a focus on real-world coping skills, crisis response, and strengthening daily routines.
Background and approach
Amanda tends to use clear, evidence-informed methods rather than jargon-filled explanations. Her style is direct and collaborative. She listens for what is getting in the way and works with each person to build step-by-step strategies.
Sessions often include homework or small experiments to try between meetings so progress can be noticed outside the session room. Amanda draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thinking and change behavior in practical ways. She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and improve focus.
People who come to her usually want help with day-to-day functioning, managing strong emotions, or shifting patterns that have caused repeated problems. Amanda supports clients who are dealing with grief, relationship strain, sleep and eating concerns, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, and identity issues. She offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different schedules.
How Amanda Uses CBT and Mindfulness Online
Amanda uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and change small behaviors that make daily life harder. CBT sessions focus on practical exercises, short experiments, and simple plans to test new ways of coping with anxiety, depression, or ADHD-related challenges.She also incorporates Mindfulness Therapy to teach attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and improve concentration. Those exercises are brief and can be practiced between sessions to help with stress, sleep, and emotional regulation.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Amanda works with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, lifestyle, and comfort level, and she adjusts strategies over time based on what is helpful.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face when convenient, phone calls are useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, live chat can provide focused back-and-forth during a session, and text messaging supports quick reflections or brief coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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