- Client-centered approach
- Narrative therapy use
- Solution-focused work
About Amanda
Amanda Hager is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, mood and anxiety issues, addictions, and identity-related topics including LGBT and gender dysphoria. Amanda emphasizes an active, collaborative approach that adapts as a person's needs change.
She pays attention to how culture, community, family stories, and social systems shape everyday life. That includes looking at transgenerational narratives and the impact of oppression. Amanda uses this context to help people make sense of patterns that cause distress or limit connection.
Her work often addresses eating and body image struggles, ADHD, grief and loss, and intimacy-related concerns. She also has experience supporting people living with HIV/AIDS, those navigating queer and transgender identities, and people managing compassion fatigue or caregiver stress.
Amanda prefers approaches that center the person rather than treating them as a list of symptoms. In sessions she draws on client-centered, existential, narrative, and solution-focused ideas to help people notice strengths and try concrete changes. Conversations are practical and direct, with space to reflect on meaning and life choices.
People who come to her can expect a frank, nonjudgmental exchange. She helps clients talk through difficult topics they may avoid elsewhere, and she works with them to build clearer routines, communication patterns, and coping strategies. If you are dealing with blended household concerns, Amanda includes that issue among her focus areas and can address it in individual work.
How Amanda’s approaches translate to online work
Amanda draws on client-centered therapy to focus on each person's concerns and strengths. This approach emphasizes listening and following the client's lead to identify what matters most and what small changes might help.She also uses narrative therapy to help people reframe their life stories. That means examining the dominant themes people tell about themselves and testing alternate explanations that reduce shame and open up different choices.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Amanda treats that as a collaborative decision, checking in about what feels useful and adjusting methods as goals evolve. She helps set practical steps, then revisits them to see what needs to change.
Confirm the exact session formats before booking, since the biography does not specify them. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people try approaches that focus on conversation, meaning, and goal-setting without rearranging their entire day.
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Primary focus
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
8+ years
Listed in
New Jersey
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
Amanda works with relationship issues, trauma and abuse, mood and anxiety problems, addictions, identity concerns including LGBT and gender dysphoria, and related areas such as eating and body image.
How would she describe her therapy style?
She uses an active, collaborative approach that adapts over time. Sessions combine person-centered listening with narrative and solution-focused techniques to produce practical steps.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has eight years of experience working in counseling settings and with issues such as eating disorders, ADHD, grief, and queer and transgender clients.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
Amanda is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in New Jersey and practices from that state.
Are sessions offered in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats does she offer?
Please confirm the current session options before booking, as the biography does not list specific formats. Ask about video, phone, or other arrangements when you schedule.
How does payment work and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. Check the matching and scheduling flow for specific pricing details.
How do I begin the process?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session through the platform.
Online talk therapy is for adults and is not emergency care, mediation or legal advice. If you or a child are in danger, use the emergency numbers. Find someone else by name.