About Amanda
Amanda Ly is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California who brings six years of counseling experience to her work. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, life changes, relationship concerns, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting, eating issues, anger, career questions, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.
Her manner is warm and interactive, and she aims to help people feel heard and understood. Amanda combines approaches that look at current patterns and past influences.
Background and approach
She helps clients notice how earlier experiences shape present choices. She also uses strategies to change unhelpful thinking and behavior with concrete exercises clients can try between sessions. Her background includes work with adolescents and transitional aged youth, and she has used creative and expressive arts as a way to help people connect with their feelings.
These hands-on methods can make difficult topics easier to talk about and give clients new ways to learn about themselves. Amanda keeps therapy collaborative and tailored. She listens for each person's goals, then offers tools and short-term exercises alongside deeper conversation.
Sessions can include practical skills, writing or drawing prompts, and paced reflection to build insight and everyday coping skills. She practices in California and brings a patient, respectful approach to sensitive topics. Amanda encourages small steps that add up over time and supports people who are ready to try something different for their mental health.
How Amanda's Approaches Work Online
Amanda uses a blend of approaches that look at both present patterns and past influences. Psychodynamic-informed work helps clients notice how earlier experiences affect current feelings and choices; this can be useful for exploring relationship patterns and recurring emotional reactions. Cognitive behavioral techniques focus on practical steps to shift thinking and behavior using clear exercises and homework, which helps with anxiety, depression, and stress management.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Amanda collaborates with each client to match strategies to their goals and preferences. She may combine insight-focused conversations with short skills practice or creative prompts so the plan fits the client's life and what they want to change.
Online therapy offers different ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when a session needs fewer bandwidth demands or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, quick coaching, or keeping momentum between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep using tools between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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