About Amanda
Amanda Rice, LPC, helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or uncertain about next steps. She listens without judgment and focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and manage daily challenges. Many reach out for help with anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, or ADHD-related difficulties.
Amanda aims to make the first conversation straightforward and calm so people can begin to feel more in control. Amanda has ten years of professional experience in Michigan.
Background and approach
She adapts conversations and plans to fit each person’s life and priorities. That may mean short-term coaching around career goals or longer work on trauma, mood, or relationship patterns. She uses approaches that emphasize skills, insight, and real-world practice.
Sessions often look like setting small goals, trying new habits between meetings, and checking what worked. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques can help change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Client-centered work keeps the person’s goals and values front and center.
For people coping with trauma, Amanda brings Trauma-Focused Therapy tools to reduce overwhelming reactions and build safety in daily life. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are offered to help with emotion regulation and impulsive moments. Solution-Focused Therapy helps when someone needs a clear, practical plan.
Amanda meets with people by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. Conversations are straightforward, respectful, and aimed at small, manageable change.
How Amanda’s Approaches Translate to Online Counseling
Amanda commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy when working online. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and it often includes exercises you try between sessions to build new habits. Trauma-Focused Therapy targets reactions that follow a traumatic event and offers strategies to reduce intense responses and increase safety in everyday life.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Amanda will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to emphasize and adjust the plan as progress unfolds, so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a busy schedule or require less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or ongoing skill practice between appointments. These formats make it easier to work with a therapist from different locations and to choose what fits a daily routine best.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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