- Emotionally-Focused Therapy
- CBT skills
- DBT strategies
About Amanda
Amanda Reid is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with eight years of clinical experience based in South Carolina. She uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy along with client-centered and cognitive-behavioral methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, ADHD, and parenting challenges.
Amanda focuses on practical skills people can use between sessions. She works to increase coping strategies, teach grounding techniques, and help clients notice and shift unhelpful thinking patterns. Sessions emphasize clear steps and small changes that add up over time.
Her background includes work as a substance abuse counselor and roles in group home and mental health hospital settings. That experience shaped her comfort with crisis-oriented problems and complicated life stressors, including co-occurring concerns like chronic illness, caregiver strain, and disruptive mood issues.
Amanda also addresses relationship-related topics such as abandonment, attachment concerns, blended family stress, communication problems, and divorce or separation. She uses motivational interviewing strategies to support readiness for change and DBT skills when emotion regulation becomes a primary focus.
In sessions she encourages clients to build routines that support mental health and to practice concrete behavioral changes. People who work with her can expect a direct, supportive approach that focuses on skills, emotion processing, and clearer communication. She offers services in English and works from South Carolina as an LPC.
How Amanda blends EFT, client-centered work, and CBT online
Amanda draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people name and work with strong emotions that often drive relationship and attachment patterns. EFT in her practice looks at emotion as information and helps people shift how they respond to intense feelings.She also uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening and reflecting so clients can examine their own goals and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and build practical skills for mood and anxiety management.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Amanda will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best based on their needs, goals, and preferences rather than insisting on a single model.
Confirm the current session formats before booking, as specific online options are listed when arranging care. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, let someone join from a familiar room, or allow a shorter check-in when time is limited. Licensed professionals can adapt session length and focus so skills practice, emotion work, or motivational conversations suit a client's day-to-day life.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
8+ years
Listed in
South Carolina
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she focus on?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, ADHD, parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem struggles, bipolar concerns, and coping with life changes.
Does she use Emotionally-Focused Therapy?
Yes. Emotionally-Focused Therapy is one of the approaches she lists and she integrates it with other methods to address emotions and relationship patterns.
What is her clinical background?
She has eight years of experience and has worked as a substance abuse counselor and in group home and mental health hospital settings.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in South Carolina.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
Costs vary with location; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Choose the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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