Amanda Sholty, LCSW

Amanda Sholty is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who welcomes people who are feeling stressed, anxious, or overwhelmed by life changes. She helps with relationship strain, self-esteem struggles, grief, addiction concerns, and challenges like compassion fatigue and parenting stress. Amanda also supports individuals facing intimacy concerns, career questions, and issues tied to trauma and abuse.

She works from a person-centered, strengths-based stance that keeps each person’s priorities at the center of sessions. Amanda treats the person in the room as the expert on their life and uses a collaborative approach to set goals and decide next steps. Sessions often focus on building practical skills and clearer communication.

Her background includes six years of clinical experience across community behavioral health, healthcare, domestic violence services, and veteran programs. She has also supported caregivers of people with dementia, which informs her understanding of caregiver stress and chronic illness challenges. This range of settings shapes a flexible way of approaching problems.

Amanda draws on several therapeutic methods to match each person’s needs, including approaches that address thoughts, emotions, and attachment patterns. She aims to make therapy understandable and useful for everyday life. Conversations tend to be direct, compassionate, and focused on concrete changes.

If someone decides to begin, Amanda helps them set clear, realistic goals and build skills they can use between sessions. People are encouraged to ask questions about the process and the fit before they schedule.

How Amanda’s Approaches Translate to Online Work

Amanda uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Attachment-Based Therapy in her practice. ACT helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values, which can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build healthier ways of relating and managing intimacy concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Amanda will listen to the client’s goals and preferences and recommend methods that fit their needs. That process is collaborative and may mix techniques from different approaches until a good fit emerges.

Confirm the available session options before booking since formats are not listed in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by reducing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins during work breaks, or offering options that use less bandwidth when needed. Licensed professionals can use these formats to keep continuity of care and to practice skills between meetings, helping people apply what they learn to everyday situations.