About Amanda
Amanda Scardino is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 25 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, anger, self-esteem, career issues, parenting strain, family conflict, and ADHD. She creates an affirming, non-religious setting for LGBTQ clients and others who want a respectful, inclusive space.
She favors plain, practical work in sessions. Amanda uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help people notice thoughts and habits that get in the way.
Background and approach
She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients clarify values and take small steps toward what matters. Sessions are collaborative and paced to the individual. Amanda often combines short skill-building exercises with in-session reflection and real-life practice between meetings.
She aims to help clients build daily habits that reduce stress and improve focus, mood, and relationships. Her background includes many years of clinical practice across a range of life challenges. That experience shapes how she supports people through transitions, grief, and ongoing emotional struggles.
Amanda emphasizes clear goals, measurable steps, and compassionate feedback during the work. People who choose Amanda typically want a straightforward, organized approach with room for personal values. She helps clients set realistic goals, track progress, and adjust strategies as life changes.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Amanda uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness therapy to help people change unhelpful thoughts and build steady routines. CBT involves identifying thought patterns and testing them with small behavioral experiments, which can be practiced between sessions to reduce anxiety and improve focus. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple awareness practices that help calm reactivity and improve attention in daily life.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps clients clarify values and take committed actions even when difficult feelings are present. That approach pairs well with online work because clients can try value-based tasks in their usual environment and review results with the therapist. Together the therapist and client decide which methods feel most useful and adapt them as goals evolve.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and guided exercises. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be a simpler option for check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging work for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or getting short coaching between sessions. These options give flexibility for different schedules, energy levels, and communication preferences, while keeping the clinical work focused on measurable steps and everyday practice.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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