Amanda Perkins, LMHC

Amanda Perkins is a Florida licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) who helps people facing anxiety, stress, grief, and relationship concerns. She focuses on practical steps clients can use right away. Her style is compassionate and straightforward, aimed at making change feel possible even when life feels overwhelming.

She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about what matters most. Sessions often focus on improving communication, building self-compassion, and developing coping skills for daily challenges. Amanda guides clients through feelings tied to trauma, career strain, parenting pressure, and identity questions including LGBT concerns.

Her background spans a decade of clinical experience in Florida working with people facing depression, bipolar struggles, and co-occurring issues like chronic illness and caregiver stress. She also supports those dealing with abandonment, attachment issues, adoption and foster care questions, and body image concerns. The emphasis is on practical tools rather than labels.

Amanda uses a mix of approaches to meet each person where they are. She draws on acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused work, client-centered listening, cognitive-behavioral techniques, and skills from dialectical behavior work to help manage intense emotions.

In session she helps clients set clear goals and practices to try between meetings. The focus is on steady progress, better communication, and stronger self-understanding. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step gets the process started.

Approaches that inform online work

Amanda commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy alongside client-centered listening. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values, which can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current connections and helps people build clearer communication and emotional safety in relationships. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on empathic listening and supporting each person to find their own solutions and strengths.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Amanda will collaborate with each person to identify goals and try methods that feel like a fit. She adjusts the mix of approaches over time based on what is helpful and what the client prefers.

Session formats are not specified here, so please confirm the available online options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Therapists can adapt exercises, communication skills practice, and emotion regulation tools to an online setting so progress continues between meetings.