About Amanda
Amanda Stoner is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She brings eight years of clinical experience to her work and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, and everyday struggles. Amanda listens closely and aims to make sessions feel straightforward and useful rather than overwhelming.
Her approach blends practical tools and thoughtful conversation. She often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
She also draws on Solution-Focused Therapy to set clear, short-term goals and build on what is already working. Amanda places importance on a warm, nonjudgmental space. She partners with people to brainstorm strategies and try small experiments between sessions.
Sessions are meant to be collaborative and paced to each person's needs. She also works on relationship and family concerns, parenting stress, self-esteem, anger, depression, and life transitions. ADHD, impulsivity, panic, social anxiety, and issues around divorce or separation are additional areas she addresses.
Amanda offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. People who choose her work through a short matching questionnaire to get connected and then schedule sessions according to availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Amanda commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy in her online work. CBT helps people identify and test the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going, which can be useful for anxiety, panic, or mood concerns. Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes small, practical steps and clear goals to build on strengths and see quick progress.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Amanda talks with each person about their needs, goals, and how they prefer to work. Together they decide whether to focus on short-term solutions, thought and behavior changes, or a mix of methods based on what seems most helpful.
Online therapy with Amanda is offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and more in-depth work. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat or text messaging lets people check in between sessions or have shorter touchpoints when that fits their routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Impulsivity
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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