EVIDENCE-BASED ACCESSIBLE THERAPY

How can therapy help?

Therapy helps you navigate your feelings, build better habits, and shift your mindset to align your life with how you want it to be.

A lot of people can be hesitant about therapy when they first start dealing with mental health issues. It’s easy to brush it off as “just talking to someone,” but there’s a significant amount of science behind it.

In recent decades, neuroscience research has shown that life experiences physically affect our brains—this is called neuroplasticity. Whether we’re learning something new, going through a stressful time, or even just engaging our senses, our brains can change. This means that while external stressors can lead to mental health challenges, therapy and certain experiences can actually help rewire your brain in a healthier way. Research consistently shows that therapy can be incredibly impactful in treating various mental health conditions.

Amanda is currently a graduate intern in clinical mental health counseling at Balanced Wellness in the Columbia, South Carolina area. She offers in-person appointments in Irmo, SC and is available virtually for clients in South Carolina, North Carolina, & Florida.

Who is Amanda?

Hi there, I’m Amanda, and I like to help people understand themselves better.

Therapy can help you to develop greater self awareness, deepen connections with others, and create a personally meaningful life. I try to foster an atmosphere of safety in which you experience a sense of freedom to think and feel. Maybe you are having trouble adjusting to a new change or are feeling stuck; perhaps you repeatedly find yourself in unhappy relationships or conflicts at work and struggle with low self-esteem. It may be that your familiar coping skills, which originally developed out of need, are no longer working for you.

AREAS OF CLINICAL INTEREST

  • Women’s issues

  • Children

  • Life transitions

  • Perfectionism

  • Divorce

  • PTSD

  • Prolonged grief

  • Anxiety & depression

  • Active duty military & veterans

  • Military sexual trauma

  • Military families

  • First responders

  • ADHD

  • Pregnancy & Postpartum

  • Infertility