Amanda Garrick , LCSW

Amanda Garrick is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 17 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and major life changes. She works from California and brings practical, down-to-earth support to people facing grief, trauma, relationship struggles, or parenting strain. Amanda uses straightforward tools so conversations lead to clearer choices and small steps forward.

Her background includes treating depression, trauma-related concerns, substance use, and long-term mental health conditions in community settings. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thinking and build everyday skills for calmer responses. Sessions focus on what matters most to the person in front of her and on skills that can be practiced between meetings.

Amanda pays attention to concerns that often come together, such as burnout, compassion fatigue, body-image distress, and ADHD. She also addresses relationship and intimacy-related issues, communication problems, and the stress of caregiving. Her approach is practical and relational - she listens, identifies small doable changes, and helps people try them out.

People who want clear structure and mindful strategies may find her style helpful. Amanda aims to create a respectful space where people can talk about hard things and build more steady routines and coping habits. She supports clients with a variety of goals, from improving sleep and eating patterns to managing grief and trauma recovery.

Her work is grounded in listening and in making therapy feel useful day-to-day. Amanda helps people plan next steps, set realistic goals, and track progress so change feels manageable rather than overwhelming.

How Amanda Uses CBT and Mindfulness Online

Amanda uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes that lead to clearer results. CBT sessions often include simple homework and short experiments to test new ways of thinking and acting.

She also draws on Mindfulness Therapy to help people tune into physical sensations and present-moment experience. Mindfulness practices are taught in easy steps and used to reduce reactivity to stress, improve sleep, and support emotion regulation.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Amanda treats therapy as a collaborative process and will tailor methods based on a person's goals, preferences, and what proves helpful in early sessions. She will check in regularly and adjust the balance of skills work and mindful practice based on progress.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits short check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or busy days while keeping consistent momentum toward goals.