Amanda Perkins, LMHC
Florida · 10 years in practice
Amanda Perkins is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and life changes.
License and registration
- LMHC, Florida
- MH16909 · expires March 2027
- NPI
- 1487167441 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Amanda
Amanda Perkins is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and life changes. She focuses on clear, practical support so a worried parent can understand what to expect in a few sentences. Amanda keeps sessions straightforward and grounded in real life concerns.
Her work combines emotionally-focused ideas with tools from cognitive behavioral and acceptance-based approaches. In sessions she helps clients notice patterns, name painful feelings, and try simple experiments to change unhelpful habits.
Background and approach
Conversations are aimed at building self-compassion and better ways to communicate with others. Amanda has ten years of experience working with adults on issues such as trauma and abuse, parenting strain, relationship problems, depression, bipolar mood concerns, and ADHD. She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, caregiver stress, body image worries, and career transitions.
That background helps her tailor strategies to each person's situation. She favors a client-centered style that invites collaboration rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Practical tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy are offered alongside Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas about attachment and feelings.
The goal is steady progress that fits daily life. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs and schedules. Amanda encourages people to be curious about what might help and to try small changes between meetings.
She aims to support lasting habits that reduce reactivity and increase emotional stability.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Amanda lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Compassion fatigue
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Amanda names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How Amanda’s approaches translate to online therapy
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at how emotions shape close connections and personal reactions. Online sessions using EFT focus on naming feelings, tracking emotional patterns, and practicing new ways to respond to stress and relationship strain.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) teaches practical skills to notice hard thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. In remote sessions clients learn simple mindfulness and values-based actions to handle anxiety, depression, or life transitions.
Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early bonds influence current behavior and emotions. Working online, the therapist and client look for attachment patterns and try new interaction styles that reduce reactivity and build trust with others.
Finding the right combination of these approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, symptoms, and preferences and then try methods that fit each person. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical benefits like flexible scheduling and reduced travel time. Video calls are useful for face-to-face dialogue, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep momentum while balancing work, parenting, or caregiving demands.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Amanda commonly help with?
Amanda works with people on stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, grief, and coping with life changes.
What is her general therapy style?
Her style is compassionate and collaborative, combining emotionally-focused work with client-centered, acceptance, and cognitive behavioral techniques to build practical skills.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has ten years of experience working with adults across a wide range of emotional and life challenges.
Where is Amanda licensed and practicing?
She is a licensed mental health counselor, FL LMHC, practicing in Florida.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted; services are focused on clients reachable within the permitted practice region.
How are sessions conducted and billed?
Sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time; cost varies with location and therapist availability.
What are the first steps to begin therapy?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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