Amanda Jordan , LCSW

Amanda Jordan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 27 years of professional experience. She holds licensure in Indiana and South Carolina and currently lives in Hawaii while working full time with active duty military personnel and their families. Her career includes practice both stateside and overseas, bringing a broad understanding of diverse cultures and service-related stresses.

Amanda’s work focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, navigate grief and loss whether related to death or other life changes, address career challenges, and recover from trauma. She emphasizes self-regulation as a foundational coping skill and guides clients in building those abilities through multiple evidence-based methods. Her clinical interests span family and relationship concerns, parenting and blended family issues, intimacy-related challenges, anger and caregiving stress, ADHD and attention concerns, and compassion fatigue among caregivers.

She has extensive experience with pre-teens, teens, and adolescents in a variety of settings, as well as with youth and adult clients from diverse backgrounds. Amanda tailors conversations and treatment plans to each person’s specific needs, believing in the value of vulnerability, support, and positive connection. She aims to empower people as they take steps toward change and healing and offers a respectful, non-judgmental space for self-expression and growth.

Approaches That Guide Online Therapeutic Work

Amanda uses client-centered therapy to create a collaborative and respectful relationship where the client’s goals and experiences shape the process; this approach helps with building trust, clarifying values, and exploring personal strengths. She also integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and patterns and developing practical strategies to manage symptoms like anxiety and mood challenges. In addition, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) techniques are employed to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, which can be especially useful for clients working on self-regulation and coping skills.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey and Amanda works collaboratively with each person to determine what fits best based on their needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts methods over time so the plan evolves with progress and changing circumstances.

Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions are arranged and delivered. Clients can meet by video call, schedule phone sessions, engage via live chat, or use text-based messaging, making it easier to access support from different locations and around busy schedules. These options help maintain continuity of care and make it simpler to fit therapy into day-to-day life.