Associate Marriage and Family Therapist # 124935
Hi, I’m Amanda, an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT), committed to walking alongside you as you navigate healing, growth, and deeper connection with yourself and others. I provide therapy for adults and children experiencing anxiety, trauma, burnout, chronic stress, emotional overwhelm, identity exploration, attachment wounds, self-esteem concerns, and relationship challenges. Many people come to therapy feeling stuck, disconnected, or caught in patterns that feel difficult to shift. I understand these experiences not as flaws or failures, but as meaningful adaptations shaped by relationships, environments, and lived experience. Therapy can offer space to slow down, reflect, make sense of your story, and reconnect with what feels steady, authentic, and true. My approach is collaborative, trauma-informed, and liberation-focused, grounded in Narrative Therapy and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). I integrate family systems, attachment-based, person-centered, compassion-focused, mindfulness-based (MBCT), and culturally responsive approaches. Together, we work to better understand emotional and relational patterns, strengthen emotional regulation, and support meaningful and sustainable change. I specialize in supporting clients navigating anxiety, trauma responses, burnout, emotional dysregulation, relational difficulties, cultural identity concerns, intergenerational patterns, and family dynamics that impact emotional wellbeing and self understanding. As a first-generation daughter of immigrants, I bring a culturally responsive and systemic lens to understanding how identity, family systems, and cultural expectations shape emotional experience, relationships, and self-concept. I am especially passionate about supporting marginalized communities and individuals who have felt unseen, misunderstood, or disconnected from parts of themselves in order to survive. In my work with children and adults, I focus on creating a safe and grounded space to explore emotions, strengthen nervous system regulation, and build more secure and connected ways of relating to self and others. I also draw from relational frameworks that support couple- and family-informed understanding of communication patterns, attachment needs, and emotional connection. A guiding question in my work is: How do we create beauty from the ruins? I hold therapy not as a process of fixing what is broken, but as an invitation to tend to what has been wounded with curiosity, compassion, and care. Together, we can gently reclaim parts of yourself that may have been lost and move toward a life that feels more connected, grounded, and alive. Above all, my hope is to offer a grounded, compassionate space where you feel safe enough to slow down, feel understood, and begin shifting long-standing patterns toward a more authentic, connected, and meaningful life.