Amanda Potts, LPC

Amanda Potts is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania with seven years of clinical experience. She offers a calm, conversational approach and aims to make people feel heard. Amanda meets clients where they are and focuses on practical steps to reduce stress and manage symptoms like anxiety, depression, anger, sleep problems, and ADHD.

She has worked in a range of settings including corrections, crisis counseling, and primary care. That background gives her experience with urgent needs, complex behavior, and coordinating care across services. She also has three years of experience supporting youth involved with the justice system.

Amanda uses evidence-informed methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques. Sessions are collaborative and conversational, with attention to strengths and daily routines. She helps people build skills for emotion regulation, coping with change, grief, and managing mood symptoms.

Her style is warm and nonjudgmental. Amanda believes clients know their stories best and works alongside them to set realistic goals. She also supports people dealing with identity-related stress, prejudice, first responder issues, and smoking or vaping cessation.

Practical concerns like parenting strain, compassion fatigue, impulsivity, panic attacks, and self-harm risk are addressed with concrete strategies and short-term skill building. Amanda encourages open conversation about goals and progress so sessions stay focused on what matters most to each person.

How Amanda Uses Practical Therapies Online

Amanda commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety, low mood, and sleep problems. DBT emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and skills for handling intense feelings and impulsivity.

She also draws on mindfulness techniques to help people notice their reactions without judgment and on motivational interviewing to support readiness for change. Amanda treats choice of approach as a collaborative decision. Together the therapist and client consider symptoms, goals, and what methods feel most useful, then try skill-building and short experiments to see what helps.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful when conversations benefit from face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging works well for brief check-ins, daily skill coaching, or when a shorter, more frequent touchpoint is helpful. These options make it easier to work on skills consistently while fitting therapy into a busy life.