About Amanda
Amanda Sholty is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, relationship struggles, and ADHD-related concerns. She speaks plainly and meets people where they are. Reaching out can feel hard, and she acknowledges that first step.
Amanda draws on six years of experience in community behavioral health, domestic violence services, healthcare, and veteran support. She has also worked with caregivers of people experiencing dementia and understands caregiver strain and chronic stress.
Background and approach
Her approach is person-centered and strengths-based. She centers each person's priorities and treats the client as the expert in their own life. Sessions focus on practical skills and on what the client wants to change or understand.
Amanda uses tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify values and change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns and communication, and incorporates client-centered work that follows each person’s pace. In sessions people can expect calm, straightforward guidance.
Amanda works collaboratively to develop coping skills, set boundaries, manage grief, address addictions, and handle life transitions. She aims to help clients build routines that fit real life and move toward their goals.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Amanda often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. ACT focuses on identifying what matters most to you and taking steps toward those values, even when hard thoughts or feelings show up. CBT looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful habits and improve daily functioning.She also draws on attachment-based ideas to help people notice relationship patterns and improve communication. Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client will discuss goals and preferences and then try methods that fit the person’s needs, adjusting as progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation when that helps build rapport. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short check-ins, coping reminders, or when typing feels easier than talking. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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