Amanda Ulmer

Amanda Ulmer is a Licensed Professional Counselor-Mental Health (LPC-MH) and Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in South Dakota with six years of professional experience. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, parenting questions, low self-esteem, and depression. She works directly with common problems like emotion regulation, motivation, confidence, and communication struggles.

Amanda uses a blend of practical, talk-based approaches aimed at identifying patterns and making small, useful changes. Sessions focus on what feels challenging right now and on skills that can be practiced between meetings. She emphasizes respect and sensitivity in conversations so people can speak about difficult things clearly.

Her clinical style draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to notice thinking patterns and DBT strategies for handling strong emotions. Existential and client-centered elements help people clarify values and make choices that matter to them.

In therapy she breaks concerns into workable parts. That might mean practicing specific skills, trying a new way of talking to a partner, or examining a cycle that keeps someone stuck. Sessions are meant to be practical and direct, with attention to everyday life demands.

Amanda’s practice covers a wide range of relationship and personal issues, including abandonment, codependency, caregiver stress, body image, family of origin problems, divorce and separation, and guilt or shame. People who want to talk about life purpose and what comes next often find it useful to address these themes alongside emotional and relational patterns.

How her approaches apply to online sessions

Amanda uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships influence current patterns of relating. This approach helps people who feel stuck in repeating relationship cycles or who struggle with trust and closeness.

She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood, and daily habits that get in the way of goals.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Amanda will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then choose strategies from attachment-based, CBT, DBT, or client-centered methods. That decision is collaborative and can change as therapy progresses.

The therapist’s biography did not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, or avoid travel time on a workday. Licensed professionals can also adapt exercises and skills practice to work well in a remote meeting, focusing on practical steps clients can use between sessions.