How Amanda works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Indiana
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Amanda
Amanda Omar is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of practice in Indiana. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, anger, or the fallout of trauma. Her style is straightforward and respectful, focused on practical steps people can use in daily life.
Amanda uses approaches that help clients name patterns and try new behaviors. She works with people facing addiction, compassion fatigue, relationship and family strain, ADHD, bipolar challenges, and career-related stress.
Background and approach
She also supports those dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, chronic illness, and caregiving burdens. Sessions are collaborative and goal oriented. Amanda blends client-centered conversations with skills-based work so people leave with concrete tools.
She often focuses on emotional regulation, clearer communication, and realistic plans for change. Her background includes a decade of direct clinical experience across a range of complex cases. That experience informs a practical orientation to therapy - less jargon, more usable steps.
Amanda encourages honest talk about the struggles people hide and helps them move toward greater stability. People who choose her typically want both understanding and action. Amanda aims to help clients spot repeating patterns, reduce distressing reactions like anger, and build routines that support long-term coping.
She offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based sessions to fit different schedules and needs.
What Amanda works with
Everything Amanda lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Amanda's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Amanda lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches and online options that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on what matters to the person in front of the therapist. It emphasizes listening, reflecting what you say, and helping you find your own solutions. This approach is useful for people who want a respectful space to sort out feelings and decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Amanda uses CBT techniques to help people notice unhelpful thinking, test new behaviors, and reduce symptoms like anxiety, anger, and low mood. This method is helpful when you want clear steps to change daily patterns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal communication. It is often used when strong emotions, anger, or relationship conflict make life harder. DBT skills can be practiced between sessions and applied to real-world stressors.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Amanda will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what seems most likely to help. She adapts methods over time, combining listening with skills practice so the plan fits your needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work together. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when schedule and bandwidth allow. Phone sessions can be easier when you prefer not to use video or need a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging let you send updates or get brief support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to practice skills in real time.
Questions people ask about Amanda
What concerns does this therapist help with?
Amanda supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, anger, addictions, relationship and family issues, parenting strain, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and related challenges.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach is collaborative and practical. Sessions mix client-centered conversation with concrete skills and action plans to address daily problems.
How much experience does she have?
She has ten years of clinical experience working with complex mental health needs and chronic stressors in Indiana.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW - based in Indiana.
Which languages are offered and are international clients supported?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What formats are available for sessions?
Sessions can be conducted by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does cost and payment work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with this therapist?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.