Amanda Leftridge , LCSW

Amanda Leftridge is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who helps people navigate grief, health challenges, relationship struggles, and life transitions. With three years of clinical experience and two years spent providing case management and mental health services in a cancer center, she brings focused experience supporting oncology patients, their families, and loved ones through illness and end-of-life concerns.

Amanda works across the lifespan and has provided care for people facing hospice, end stage renal disease and dialysis, chronic pain and illness, HIV, and other complex medical needs. She also supports people managing depression, anxiety, trauma-related disorders, anger, chronic stress and fatigue, sleep difficulties, bipolar disorder, ADHD, career challenges, and compassion fatigue. Amanda is LGBTQIA+ friendly and approaches each person with respect, dignity, sensitivity, and compassion.

Her practice blends evidence-informed methods including mindfulness, cognitive-behavioral techniques, solution-focused strategies, strengths-based and psychodynamic perspectives. She tailors treatment goals and session plans to each person’s unique needs, focusing on practical tools and resilience alongside emotional processing. Amanda emphasizes a collaborative partnership to identify goals and develop coping skills that fit the client’s life.

Clients seeking support for caregiving stress, cancer-related concerns, aging and geriatric issues, chronic conditions, or relationship and intimacy matters will find experience working with these challenges in her background. Amanda aims to provide a calm, validating space where people can regain perspective, build coping strategies, and move forward at their own pace.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care and Support

Amanda draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and teaching practical strategies to change behaviors and manage symptoms such as anxiety, depression, and stress. This approach often includes skill-building like problem solving and activity scheduling to support day-to-day functioning.

She also incorporates mindfulness therapy, a practice that helps people develop present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity to difficult thoughts and emotions. Mindfulness techniques can be helpful for managing stress, improving sleep, and increasing emotional regulation.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. Amanda works with each person to explore which methods match their goals, preferences, and life circumstances, and she adapts treatment plans over time as needs change. Clients and therapist decide together what feels most useful and realistic.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage in care through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, reduce travel time, and maintain continuity of support during health challenges or life transitions. Licensed professionals can deliver effective therapeutic work through these formats while tailoring modalities to each client’s situation.