Amanda DiGenova, LMHC

Amanda DiGenova is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York who uses practical, evidence-informed methods to help people manage stress and emotional pain. She draws on cognitive behavioral strategies alongside client-centered care to help clients make small, manageable changes. Sessions are straightforward and focused on real problems. With ten years of clinical experience, Amanda helps people cope with anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship struggles. She offers support for parenting and family-related stress, substance use concerns, and issues tied to sexual orientation. She also addresses intimacy-related problems, anger, career transitions, and care-related stress. Her approach blends cognitive behavioral therapy with client-centered listening and elements of dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness. That means she helps clients identify unhelpful thinking patterns, practice new coping skills, and build calmer responses to strong emotions. Conversations are practical and goal oriented rather than abstract. Amanda also brings attention to life meaning through existential ideas when that fits a client’s goals. She pays attention to the whole person, including how physical health and life circumstances affect mood and behavior. Her style is encouraging and motivated by helping people find more balance. People who work with her can expect a mix of skill-building and reflective talk. Sessions may include hands-on tools for managing symptoms, step-by-step plans, and time to talk through difficult decisions. Her aim is to help clients feel more capable and in charge of their next steps.

How Amanda’s approaches fit online work

Amanda uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy as core methods. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which lends itself well to online work through concrete exercises and between-session tasks. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and building rapport, helping people feel heard and understood in video or phone sessions. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when needed to help with emotion regulation and distress tolerance. DBT-style skills are taught as step-by-step practices that can be reviewed and practiced between sessions in text or chat formats. Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Amanda will work collaboratively to match methods to a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean starting with skill-building from CBT, then adding mindfulness or DBT skills, or focusing on open-ended, client-centered conversations depending on what helps most. Online sessions offer practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection and quick skill reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep progress moving between meetings.