Amanda Williamson, LPC

Amanda Williamson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in South Carolina with 22 years of clinical experience. She has supported people through a wide range of mental health journeys, working in settings from psychiatric hospitals during crisis to outpatient care focused on steady, long-term growth. Amanda brings a calm, creative, and down-to-earth energy to sessions and aims to help adults rediscover strength, heal old wounds, and build lives that feel lighter and more joyful.

As a mom, grandmother, and wife, she draws on real-life experience to connect with people from varied backgrounds and life stages. Her specialties include stress and anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, LGBT issues, relationship and family concerns, intimacy-related difficulties, parenting, anger, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes. She also focuses on issues such as abandonment, body image, codependency, communication problems, divorce and separation, domestic violence, drug and alcohol addiction, family of origin concerns, forgiveness, guilt and shame, infidelity, isolation and loneliness, life purpose, and mood disorders.

Amanda uses practical, evidence-informed tools including cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness practices, and solution-focused strategies to quiet unhelpful thoughts, build coping skills, and foster lasting change. She views each person as the expert on their life and offers a fresh perspective, gentle guidance, and nonjudgmental support. Amanda provides sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. She cannot provide accommodation letters until therapy has been established for at least 30 days and does not work with porn addiction or dissociative disorders.

Approaches for Online Healing and Growth

Amanda commonly integrates cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness therapy, and solution-focused therapy in her work. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors, and is often used for anxiety, depression, and intrusive worries. Mindfulness therapy teaches present-focused awareness and practical exercises to reduce stress and increase emotional regulation, which can be helpful for anxiety, mood challenges, and coping after trauma. Solution-focused therapy emphasizes clear goals and small, practical steps to build momentum and solve specific problems such as relationship or parenting concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Amanda collaborates with each person to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting strategies over time so therapy feels tailored and effective.

Online therapy offers flexibility in how care is delivered - by video call, phone session, live chat, or text-based messaging - making it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules or to access licensed professionals from a distance. These options support consistent, ongoing work and make it possible to practice new skills between meetings with the therapist.