Amanda Garrick
Compassionate social worker using practical therapies
LCSW California
- Experience
- 17 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, Family
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Amanda
Amanda Garrick is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 17 years of clinical experience based in California. She brings a background in social work and a long history of supporting people facing depression, anxiety, trauma, substance use concerns, and a wide range of life stressors.
Background and approach
Amanda emphasizes practical coping skills and therapeutic strategies to help clients navigate both immediate crises and longer term challenges. Her style blends evidence-informed techniques such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with mindfulness-based practices to address patterns of thinking, emotional regulation, and behavioral change.
She aims to create an accepting, supportive atmosphere in which clients can explore issues like grief, relationship and intimacy struggles, eating and sleeping concerns, parenting stress, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Amanda also works with additional focus areas including attachment and communication difficulties, codependency, blended family issues, and care-related stress.
Clients can expect a collaborative approach that emphasizes developing concrete skills, improving day-to-day functioning, and enhancing resilience. Amanda seeks to help people identify realistic goals and build strategies that fit their lives, whether addressing acute problems or coping with ongoing life transitions.
How CBT and Mindfulness Translate to Online Care
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them through practical, behavior-focused exercises. In an online setting this can include homework assignments, thought records, and activity planning to address anxiety, depression, and problematic coping patterns. Mindfulness Therapy emphasizes present-moment awareness and nonjudgmental observation of thoughts and feelings, offering strategies to reduce reactivity and improve emotion regulation for stress, trauma-related symptoms, and compassion fatigue.
Deciding which approaches to use is a collaborative process. Amanda works with clients to understand their needs, preferences, and goals and together they determine whether CBT, mindfulness techniques, or a combination is the best fit. Treatment plans are adjusted as progress is tracked so the approach evolves with the client's priorities and responses.
Online therapy via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers practical flexibility for people juggling schedules, caregiving, work, or mobility limitations. These formats make it possible to access licensed professionals from different locations and to continue skill practice between sessions. The variety of communication options also allows clients to choose the mode that feels most comfortable for discussing sensitive topics and building consistent therapeutic momentum.
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Experience
17+ years
Licensed
California
Languages
English