Amanda Kayes-Carson "Kayes", LPC

Amanda Kayes-Carson "Kayes" is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Colorado with more than two decades of clinical experience. She draws on a broad background helping people navigate depression, stress, anxiety, ADHD, trauma and PTSD, relationship challenges, family conflict, and parenting concerns. As an LPC she is a licensed mental health counselor in Colorado, trained to assess, support, and guide people through emotional and behavioral struggles.

Her approach blends person-centered values with strength-based, solution-focused techniques and family systems thinking, and she is trauma-informed in her work. She tailors conversations and treatment plans to each person’s specific needs, offering respectful, sensitive, and compassionate care. Seeking change can take courage, and she aims to support and empower individuals as they move toward a more fulfilling and balanced life. She looks forward to meeting and collaborating with those ready to begin that journey.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Amanda integrates client-centered therapy, which emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental stance and focuses on each person's goals and lived experience. This approach helps people feel heard and supported while exploring their values and choices.

She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), a practical method that examines how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and offers tools to manage symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress. CBT can be helpful for building coping skills and changing unhelpful patterns.

Attachment-based therapy is another focus, addressing how early and current relationships influence emotion, trust, and intimacy. This work can be useful for people dealing with relationship struggles, abandonment concerns, or attachment-related patterns.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Amanda will work with each person to identify their needs, goals, and preferences and adjust techniques as therapy progresses to find the best fit.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - making it easier to schedule care around work, family, or mobility needs. These options allow clients to receive consistent support from a licensed professional in ways that suit their life and comfort level.