Amanda Potts , LPC

Amanda Potts is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania with seven years of clinical experience. She offers a warm, conversational style and aims to make people feel heard and respected during sessions. Amanda focuses on women's issues among a range of concerns and works to help clients move through stress, anxiety, mood challenges, and life changes.

Her background includes work in corrections, crisis counseling, and primary care settings. She also spent three years working with justice system involved youth, which shaped her practical approach to challenging situations. Amanda draws from several evidence-informed methods to meet people where they are.

Sessions are collaborative and relaxed. Amanda treats the person as the expert in their own life and helps them identify strengths and next steps. Conversations are straightforward and focused on real, usable tools rather than jargon.

She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to address unhelpful thinking and patterns. Mindfulness and dialectical behavioral strategies are used to help with emotion regulation and stress. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused ideas help set manageable goals and keep progress moving.

Amanda aims to create a supportive space that helps clients tackle sleep problems, anger, grief, ADHD-related challenges, trauma, and other concerns. She honors each person’s pace while working toward clearer coping skills and small, achievable changes.

How Amanda Uses Therapy Approaches Online

Amanda commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based methods to help people manage thoughts, behaviors, and stress. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and ease low mood. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to help regulate emotions and respond more calmly to difficult moments.

She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance in short, practical exercises. These DBT-informed skills are helpful for managing strong emotions, impulsivity, and overwhelm. Amanda works with each person to figure out which approaches fit best for their goals and day-to-day life in a collaborative way.

Online formats make these methods easier to use around a busy schedule. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation and demonstrations of skills. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when listening without video feels better. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, brief coaching, and step-by-step guidance between sessions. Together these options provide flexibility so therapy can fit into work, caregiving, or other routines.