Amanda Gragg, LMHC, LPC

Amanda Gragg is a licensed clinician who works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and trauma. She brings 15 years of experience and a practical focus to sessions. People come to her when they want clearer coping skills and steadier day-to-day routines.

She uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice patterns of thinking and change unhelpful behaviors. Amanda also draws on mindfulness techniques to help slow down racing thoughts and build calm in stressful moments. Motivational interviewing is part of her style when someone needs support finding reasons to change and planning small next steps.

Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented. Clients will work on skills to improve sleep, manage anger, reduce substance use, or rebuild self-esteem. Amanda keeps language plain and gives exercises people can use between sessions to practice new habits.

She pays attention to life events like grief, caregiving strain, and major transitions, and helps clients sort through guilt, shame, or isolation that can follow. Communication problems and control issues are addressed with clear behavioral experiments and problem-solving tasks.

Amanda holds LMHC and LPC credentials and practices in Wisconsin. She offers care that aims to be compassionate and practical, focusing on what will make daily life more manageable. Her work emphasizes steady progress and doable steps toward feeling better.

Approaches for change in online sessions

People can access cognitive behavioral therapy online to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors in daily life; CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and mood regulation. Mindfulness therapy helps people notice stress and ground their attention through simple breathing and awareness exercises, which can reduce reactivity and improve focus.

Choosing an approach is a team effort. The therapist will work collaboratively to match methods to a person's goals and preferences, and may blend CBT, mindfulness, and motivational techniques as needs evolve. This helps keep the work practical and responsive to what the client says is and isn't working.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversational work and teaching skills visually. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat or text messaging can be a shorter check-in or a way to practice new skills between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule consistent care and to carry forward tools into everyday routines.