- Strengths based
- Queer affirming
- Practical goals
About Amanda
Amanda Hager is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey with eight years of clinical experience. She approaches therapy as a collaborative process and listens to each person’s story before choosing how to proceed. She centers a person’s lived experience, including cultural and systemic influences, rather than reducing someone to symptoms. Amanda creates an open, nonjudgmental space where people can discuss difficult topics they may not raise elsewhere.
Her background includes focused work with eating disorders, ADHD, and high-risk thoughts and behaviors. She has experience supporting queer and transgender people, people living with HIV/AIDS, and BIPOC clients. She also addresses issues such as grief, relationship concerns, anxiety, depression, and substance use in straightforward, practical ways.
Amanda uses approaches that emphasize the client’s strengths and personal meaning. She draws on client-centered methods that follow the person’s lead and narrative techniques that help reframe life stories. She also uses solution-focused strategies to set small, achievable goals and existential ideas to examine values and purpose.
In sessions she helps people name patterns, try specific coping steps, and adjust goals as needs change. She speaks English and practices in New Jersey under her LPC credential. If someone wants to start, Amanda asks them to complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule an initial appointment to discuss goals and next steps.
How Amanda's Approaches Shape Online Work
Amanda draws on client-centered therapy, which means she follows the person’s lead and focuses on what matters most to them; this approach helps when someone needs to feel heard and understood. She also uses narrative therapy to help people examine and reframe the stories they tell about themselves, useful for issues like identity, shame, and body image. Solution-focused techniques are part of her practice too and are aimed at setting concrete, short-term goals to produce noticeable changes.Choosing the right approach is treated as a team effort. Amanda will talk with the person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. She adjusts direction over time, mixing approaches as progress and priorities shift.
If you are considering online sessions, confirm current session options before booking since formats were not specified in the biography. In general, remote therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy schedule, allow for shorter check-ins when time is limited, and reduce travel time for those balancing work or caregiving. Amanda aims to help people find practical ways to use therapy in everyday life while tailoring the approach to individual goals.
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Experience
8+ years
Credentials
New Jersey
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Amanda commonly address?
She works with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, eating and body image issues, addictions, ADHD, grief, and relationship or intimacy-related problems.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Amanda practices in a collaborative, client-centered way and uses narrative and solution-focused ideas to help people reframe stories and set small, practical goals.
What experience does she bring to sessions?
She has eight years of clinical experience and specific work with eating disorders, ADHD, high-risk thoughts and behaviors, queer and transgender clients, and people living with HIV/AIDS.
Where does she practice and what are her credentials?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in New Jersey as indicated by her credential.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How are fees handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin therapy?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule based on the therapist's availability.