Amanda Phillips
Practical support for stress and relationships
LICSW, LISW Alabama
- Experience
- 20 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English
About Amanda
Amanda Phillips is a licensed clinical social worker with two decades of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship concerns. She works from a respectful, person-centered stance and aims to create a straightforward, practical space for change.
Background and approach
She focuses on trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, depression, and sleep problems. She has specific experience with veterans and post-traumatic stress.
She also helps people facing caregiver stress, codependency, divorce and separation, and domestic violence aftereffects. Amanda uses a mix of approaches to fit each person’s needs.
That can include the Gottman Method to look at relationship patterns, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and action, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking. She also draws on client-centered and dialectical behavior strategies when they help move a person forward.
Her style is conversational and practical. Sessions often focus on small, doable steps and clear tools to manage difficult emotions or improve communication.
She treats the person as the expert on their life while offering guidance from her years of practice. Amanda is licensed in Alabama and Iowa as LICSW and LISW.
She offers video, phone, chat, and text-based options so people can choose what fits their schedule and rhythm.
Approaches that inform online care
Amanda often uses the Gottman Method to examine how partners interact, identify patterns that cause conflict, and teach practical skills for better communication and connection. Gottman-focused work is useful when people want concrete tools for relationship moments and routines.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people clarify their values and take committed steps even when strong emotions are present. ACT is helpful for managing anxiety, depression, and life transitions by focusing on what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is another tool she uses to spot and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, offering clear strategies for mood and sleep issues.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to goals, try methods, and adjust plans based on what is working. Clients have a say in which techniques feel most useful and the pace of change.
Online sessions are available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy schedules. Video is good for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited, chat or text are handy for quick check-ins or brief skill practice. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, caregiving, and daily life.
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Experience
20+ years
Licensed in
Alabama, Iowa
Languages
English