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Amanda Perkins

Amanda Perkins, LMHC

Therapist in Florida

Balanced support for real-life emotional challenges

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  • Practical coping steps
  • Values-based work
  • Warm listening

About Amanda

Amanda Perkins is a Florida licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship struggles. She offers a calm, straightforward style that focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions. Amanda aims to help clients find clearer thinking, stronger boundaries, and more self-compassion in everyday life.

She builds a non-judgmental space where individuals can talk through difficult experiences. Sessions tend to focus on understanding patterns, practicing new ways of coping, and setting small, achievable goals. Amanda works with concerns ranging from trauma and abuse to career strain, parenting stress, and mood disorders such as depression and bipolar challenges.

Her work draws on a mix of methods that include acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused perspectives, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques, and emotion regulation skills from dialectical behavior approaches. These tools are used to help people manage symptoms and try new habits that fit their lives.

Amanda brings ten years of clinical experience in Florida to her practice. She often supports people dealing with compassion fatigue, intimacy-related problems, ADHD, and issues tied to adoption, attachment, or caregiving. The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes.

People who choose Amanda will find a therapist who prefers practical steps and thoughtful listening. She encourages collaboration, helping clients clarify values and make concrete plans. To begin, readers should use the site's Start Therapy flow to match and schedule a session.

How therapeutic approaches guide online work

Amanda uses methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy to guide her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and then choose actions that match their values, which can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current connections and helps people build more steady ways of relating when trust or intimacy is difficult.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss your goals and preferences and then try techniques that fit your needs. Sessions often mix listening, behavioral experiments, and specific skills practice so you can try changes between meetings and review what worked.

Please confirm what session formats are available before booking, since the biography does not list them. Many people find online therapy helpful because it can fit more easily around work, caregiving, or medical appointments. Online sessions can make it simpler to keep regular check-ins, use brief phone or video check-ins on busy days, and practice skills in real-world settings soon after learning them.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseSelf esteemCompassion fatigue

Also works with

LGBTRelationship issuesGriefIntimacy-related issuesParenting issuesAnger managementCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderDepressionCoping with life changesCoachingADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAging and geriatric issuesAttachment issuesAutism and Asperger SyndromeAvoidant personalityBlended family issuesBody imageCancerCaregiver issues and stressChronic pain, illness, and disabilityCo-morbidityCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDissociationDivorce and separationDomestic violenceEating and food-related issuesEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFatherhood issuesFirst responder issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameHIV / AIDSHoardingHospice and end-of-life counselingImmigration issuesImpulsivityInfidelityIntellectual disabilityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMidlife crisisVeteran and Armed Forces IssuesMoney and financial issuesMood disordersMulticultural concernsNarcissismObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksParanoiaPersonality disordersPhobiasPolyamory / non-monogamous relationshipsPost-traumatic stressPrejudice and discriminationSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-harmSelf-loveSexual assault and abuseSexualitySmoking / vaping cessationSocial anxiety and phobiaSomatizationTraumatic brain injuryWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Existential TherapyJungian TherapyMindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapyPsychodynamic TherapySolution-Focused TherapySomatic TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

10+ years

Credentials

Florida

Languages

English

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does Amanda address?

She helps with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting strain, depression and bipolar mood concerns, and related topics like ADHD and communication problems.

How would you describe her therapeutic style?

The approach is compassionate and practical, combining gentle listening with concrete skills work and goal-setting to help people make changes between sessions.

How much clinical experience does she have?

Amanda has ten years of experience providing therapy in Florida, working with a wide range of life transitions and emotional challenges.

What credentials and location apply to this practice?

She is a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor, listed as LMHC, and practices in Florida.

Which languages are sessions offered in?

Sessions are offered in English only and international clients are not currently accepted.

What session formats does she offer?

Session formats are not specified in the biography; please confirm current session options before booking so you know whether in-person or online visits are available.

How is cost handled for sessions?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

What are the first steps to begin working together?

Click the continue button on this profile, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability through the platform.

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