Amanda Hager, LPC

Amanda Hager is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who frames therapy as an active, collaborative process. She gets to know each person and listens for how their life story, community, and culture shape their struggles. Sessions focus on building on strengths rather than treating someone as a list of symptoms.

Her work centers on helping people with mood concerns like depression and anxiety, relationship and intimacy questions, and stress from life transitions. She also supports those coping with trauma, grief, addiction, eating and body-image concerns, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Amanda names LGBT and gender-related issues among her clinical focuses.

Amanda notes the influence of social and transgenerational forces on wellbeing. She avoids one-size-fits-all, Eurocentric approaches and instead pays attention to culture, family stories, and community context. That perspective helps shape practical goals and next steps in therapy.

Her style blends client-centered listening with narrative and solution-focused tools. That means time is spent understanding a person’s story, identifying patterns that matter, and trying small, concrete changes that move things forward. Clients are treated as whole people with strengths to build from.

Amanda brings eight years of counseling experience in New Jersey. She aims to create a judgment-free space where people can talk about issues they may not be able to raise elsewhere. To begin, the site’s matching process helps connect people with her and schedule sessions.

Approaches that guide online care

Amanda draws from client-centered, narrative, and solution-focused approaches to shape sessions. Client-centered work centers the person and their priorities, offering space to be heard and to set goals at a comfortable pace. Narrative work looks at the stories people tell about themselves and the patterns those stories create, which can be useful for addressing identity, family history, or guilt and shame.

Solution-focused work aims for practical steps you can try between sessions. It’s useful when people want concrete changes or clearer next actions for problems like relationship communication, managing stress, or coping with life transitions. Amanda treats selecting an approach as a shared process and will help figure out what fits your needs and preferences over time.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when that suits your day. Therapists and licensed professionals commonly use these advantages to make care more adaptable to real life.