About Amanda
Amanda Hager is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who brings eight years of clinical work to sessions. She focuses on understanding each person as a full individual rather than a set of symptoms. Amanda centers conversations on clients' real experiences and the ways culture, community, and systems shape everyday life.
Her approach is collaborative and flexible. She listens for strengths clients already have and helps them build emotional tools that fit their life.
Background and approach
Amanda pays attention to how identity, grief, and relationship patterns influence stress and behavior. She has notable experience supporting people with eating concerns, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and high-risk thoughts or behaviors. Amanda also works with clients who identify as queer or transgender and those living with HIV/AIDS, offering a nonjudgmental space to talk about issues that feel hard to address elsewhere.
Therapy sessions are practical and grounded. Amanda uses client-centered conversation to learn what matters most to each person. She draws on narrative and solution-focused ideas to reshape unhelpful stories and try small, doable changes between sessions.
People who reach out can expect consistent attention to their strengths and values. Amanda aims to make therapy relevant to daily life, helping clients manage stress, relationships, self-esteem, and the challenges that come with major life changes.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Amanda uses client-centered methods that put each person's priorities first, focusing on listening and reflecting so goals come from the client. This approach helps when someone needs a steady, respectful space to make sense of their concerns.She also uses narrative therapy to help people examine the stories they tell about themselves. By noticing these patterns, clients can try different meanings and reduce shame or limiting beliefs that fuel anxiety or low self-esteem.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Amanda will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. The process is collaborative and can shift as goals evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options let people fit therapy into busy days and try different formats to see what helps most.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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