- Years in practice
- 8
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Self esteem
About Amanda
Amanda Dunn is an LPC licensed in Colorado with eight years in the mental health field. She works with adults who are dealing with anxiety, stress, depression, and the aftereffects of trauma. Amanda also supports people navigating parenting challenges and relationship concerns.
Amanda’s approach is warm and client-centered. She focuses on each person as an individual and partners with them to set clear, manageable goals. Sessions are collaborative and practical, with straightforward tools you can try between meetings.
Background and approach
She draws on a mix of methods to match a person’s needs, often using cognitive-behavioral ideas, mindfulness, and trauma-focused strategies in ways that make sense for daily life. Amanda pays attention to how stress shows up in routines, sleep, and relationships so small changes can add up.
Parents find her helpful for managing overwhelm, improving communication, and finding ways to rest when life feels busy. She also works with people exploring identity, intimacy, and nontraditional relationship structures and sexual cultures, always aiming for respectful, nonjudgmental conversation. Amanda aims to create a calm, honest space where people can talk through what matters most.
She offers empathy, practical skills, and steady support while clients try new ways of coping and relating.
What Amanda works with
Everything Amanda lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Amanda helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Depression
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Gender dysphoria
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Amanda lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Amanda often uses Client-Centered Therapy to create an accepting, respectful space where the client sets the pace and topics of conversation. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping people find their own solutions to stressful or painful situations.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which examines how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and introduces practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. CBT works well for anxiety, mood concerns, sleep issues, and everyday stressors.
Finding the right method is part of the work. Amanda collaborates with each person to choose or blend approaches that fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. She checks in regularly and adjusts methods based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is helpful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions require less bandwidth, live chat can work for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different life rhythms.
Questions people ask about Amanda
What concerns does Amanda help with?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, parenting, sleep problems, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and related concerns listed in her profile.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is warm and client-centered. She works collaboratively and uses practical tools to help people meet their goals.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Amanda has eight years of experience working in mental health, primarily in outpatient settings.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She holds the LPC credential, licensed in Colorado.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats does she offer?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for online care.
How does cost work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started working with her?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on therapist availability.
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