Amanda Hawkins

Amanda Hawkins is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW in Florida with nine years of professional experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and questions about life purpose. She also supports people navigating parenting challenges, career crossroads, and mood or trauma-related problems.

Amanda centers sessions on each person’s own story. She uses client-centered and narrative approaches to listen to how past experiences shape current choices. She combines that with practical methods from solution-focused work to map small, achievable steps forward.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills appear in her work when people need tools for managing strong emotions or improving relationships. Mindfulness techniques are offered to help with grounding, reducing anxiety, and improving attention to present-moment choices. Together these methods aim to make everyday moments feel more manageable.

Her background includes nearly a decade of social work practice in Florida settings. That experience informs a straightforward style that balances listening with concrete strategies. Sessions cover topics like self-esteem, sexuality and LGBT concerns, postpartum and perinatal issues, and life adjustments such as divorce, aging, or chronic illness.

Amanda invites people who are unsure what comes next to explore practical options. She asks questions, offers skills and helps clients test small changes outside sessions. To begin, prospective clients follow the site's matching and scheduling steps to book a first meeting.

How Amanda’s approaches translate to online sessions

Amanda often uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening to the person’s story and reflecting what matters to them. This approach helps clarify values and priorities, useful when someone feels unsure about next steps.

She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach concrete emotion regulation and interpersonal techniques. Those skills suit people coping with intense feelings, relationship strain, or times of rapid change. Mindfulness therapy appears in her work to strengthen present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity, which can ease anxiety and improve focus.

Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work together. Amanda treats selection of methods as collaborative and will help choose what fits someone’s goals and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts techniques based on progress and feedback.

The biography does not list specific online formats, so confirm current session options before booking. In general, online sessions can make it easier to fit meetings into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when time is tight, or let someone choose audio only if bandwidth or comfort with video is an issue. Licensed professionals can adapt these approaches to remote sessions to focus on practical skills and narrative exploration while keeping appointments easier to schedule.