- Client-centered work
- Narrative approaches
- Solution-focused steps
About Amanda
Amanda Hager is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in New Jersey with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on concerns such as depression, anxiety, relationship and intimacy issues, addiction, family-related struggles, and LGBTQ matters including gender dysphoria. Amanda also addresses eating and body-image issues, ADHD, grief, and career or life transitions.
She frames therapy as a collaborative process and takes time to learn each person’s background. Amanda looks at how family patterns, cultural expectations, and social systems shape feelings and behavior. She does not reduce people to symptoms and instead works with the strengths they already have.
In sessions she uses approaches that emphasize the client’s perspective and personal story. Amanda draws on client-centered listening, narrative work that re-frames life stories, and solution-focused steps to set short-term goals. She also uses existential conversations about meaning when that fits the person’s concerns.
Practical work in therapy can include talking through difficult family-of-origin patterns, managing stress or compulsion, and addressing intimacy or sexual-culture questions such as BDSM and kink in a nonjudgmental way. Amanda has experience supporting people living with HIV/AIDS and those facing complex grief, including loss through suicide.
She is mindful of how systemic factors affect well-being and will discuss how culture, community, and family expectations shape choices. Prospective clients should confirm current session options before booking and expect a collaborative, goal-focused approach.
How Amanda’s approaches shape online sessions
Amanda draws on client-centered therapy, narrative therapy, and solution-focused work in her practice. Client-centered therapy centers on listening and responding to each person’s concerns, useful for anxiety, depression, and relationship stress. Narrative therapy looks at the stories people tell about themselves and helps reframe those stories when they keep causing pain. Solution-focused work identifies small, practical steps and short-term goals to reduce stress and make day-to-day changes.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. Amanda will talk with each person about their goals, stresses, and preferences and then suggest which methods to prioritize. She checks in periodically to adjust the plan based on what is working and what isn’t.
Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, shorten check-ins when needed, or avoid travel time. These practical benefits help therapy fit into everyday life while the therapist and client focus on addressing family patterns, intimacy questions, grief, or coping skills together.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
8+ years
Listed in
New Jersey
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does Amanda work with?
She works with depression, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, addictions, eating and body-image issues, ADHD, grief, and family-related struggles including family of origin issues.
What is her general approach in sessions?
Amanda uses client-centered listening, narrative therapy that examines personal stories, existential conversation about meaning, and solution-focused steps to set practical goals.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has eight years of experience working with a range of concerns including eating disorders, ADHD, and grief.
Where is she licensed and practicing?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in New Jersey and practices with that credential.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How does her fee structure work?
Cost varies with location and sessions are provided through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Amanda?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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