- Strengths focused
- Trauma aware
- LGBT affirmative
About Amanda
Amanda Hager is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey with eight years of experience. She describes therapy as an active, collaborative process where the client guides the pace. Amanda listens for how life experiences, culture, family stories, and social systems shape a person's feelings and choices.
She avoids approaches that treat people as a list of symptoms. Instead she focuses on strengths people already have and helps them build steady emotional foundations. Sessions aim to be flexible and adapt as needs change over time.
Amanda has experience addressing eating disorders, ADHD, and high-risk thoughts and behaviors. She also works with people who identify as queer or transgender and those living with HIV or dealing with complex grief and loss. Her background includes supporting parents of transgender teens and adults and helping people from BIPOC communities.
Clients can bring a wide range of concerns, including relationship difficulties, intimacy-related issues, addictions, stress, anxiety, depression, and career concerns. She also addresses body image, codependency, blended family issues, infidelity, and communication problems. Amanda names BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture as additional focus areas.
In sessions she aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about things they may not share elsewhere. The work is grounded in helping a person make practical changes and find meaning in their experiences.
How Amanda's Approaches Work Online
Amanda uses client-centered and narrative approaches that fit well with remote work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person, helping them make their own choices and build on strengths. Narrative Therapy helps people tell the story of their life differently, separating problems from identity and finding new ways to act around those stories.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Amanda collaborates with each person to decide which methods match their goals and needs. She adjusts the style over time so the work stays practical and relevant to the client's priorities.
Session formats are not specified here, so please confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by removing commute time and allowing sessions during breaks or evenings. It can also offer flexible ways to check in when a shorter conversation is useful or when video is not convenient. Amanda and other licensed professionals can help choose the session rhythm that best supports everyday routines.
Areas of focus
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Amanda often address?
She supports people facing relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, depression, anxiety, stress, and addictions. She also works with concerns like eating issues, grief, self-esteem, ADHD, and career or life transitions.
What is Amanda's therapeutic style?
Her style is collaborative and client-centered, adapting to each person's needs. She focuses on strengths and practical steps rather than only symptom-focused strategies.
What relevant experience does she have?
She has eight years of clinical experience and has worked with eating disorders, ADHD, high-risk thoughts and behaviors, and queer and transgender clients. Her work also includes grief, HIV/AIDS related concerns, and support for BIPOC clients.
What credential does Amanda hold and where is she based?
Amanda is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in New Jersey and practices there.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with Amanda?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. Specific rates depend on the subscription plan chosen.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to the therapist's availability.