Amanda Hager

Amanda Hager is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor based in New Jersey with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on life purpose concerns alongside issues such as depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy challenges, addictions, and coping with major life changes. Amanda also lists work with ADHD, grief, body image, and career concerns among her areas of focus.

Amanda describes therapy as an active, collaborative process. She emphasizes understanding a person's lived experience, including how culture, community, family, transgenerational narratives, and social systems shape wellbeing. In sessions she looks beyond symptom lists and attends to strengths people can use to build emotional foundations.

Her practice includes work with gender diverse and queer people, and she notes specific experience with eating disorders, ADHD, high risk thoughts and behaviors, and issues related to HIV/AIDS. She also has experience supporting those facing complex grief and parents of transgender teens and adults.

Sessions are meant to be flexible and to change as needs change. Amanda aims to create time to listen and to help people make concrete steps when they want them. She draws on client-centered, existential, narrative, and solution-focused approaches to do this.

People who feel stuck in work, relationships, or life direction may find a practical focus in her approach. She asks questions, reflects what she hears, and helps identify small, achievable next steps rather than promising quick fixes.

How her approaches are used in online sessions

Amanda draws on client-centered and narrative approaches alongside solution-focused techniques. Client-centered work means she listens closely and reflects what she hears so clients can name what matters most. Narrative work looks at the stories people tell about themselves and considers how those stories shape choices and relationships. Solution-focused techniques focus on identifying small, practical steps and measuring progress toward brief goals.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. She will talk with clients about their needs, goals, and preferences, and then suggest which approaches to emphasize. This is a collaborative process and can change as goals change.

Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm available session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into everyday schedules, for example by reducing travel time or allowing shorter check-ins during a busy day. It can also allow people to meet with a licensed professional from different locations within the same state while keeping sessions focused on practical steps and personal meaning.