Therapist profile
Amanda Vaughan, LMHC
Licensed Mental Health Counselor - Family and parenting focus
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About Amanda
Amanda Vaughan is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Massachusetts with 13 years of clinical experience. She works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting pressures, grief, trauma, and addiction. Amanda also supports issues around intimacy, gender questions, and family of origin problems.
Her style is direct and client-centered. Sessions focus on practical skills and clear steps rather than abstract talk. Mindfulness and behavioral tools are used to build coping skills that can be practiced between meetings.
Amanda draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to help people change unhelpful thoughts and manage intense emotions. She also uses existential ideas to help people clarify values and make meaningful choices. The therapy tends to be goal-oriented and rooted in everyday life tasks.
She has experience in crisis intervention, group work, and intensive treatment settings. That background informs short-term problem solving and options for more structured support when needed. Amanda pays attention to patterns that come from family history and attachment experiences.
Clients can expect straightforward feedback and practical exercises during sessions. Amanda often uses mindfulness practices to increase moment-to-moment awareness and then builds on those skills with cognitive or behavioral techniques. People seeking help with parenting stress, blended family challenges, or fatherhood issues will find these concrete tools useful.
How sessions work
Approaches used in remote sessions and how they help
Amanda commonly uses client-centered work, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) in her practice. Client-centered work focuses on the person's priorities and experiences and helps shape sessions around what matters most right now. CBT looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and gives clear exercises to test and change those patterns. DBT offers concrete emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills for managing intense feelings and crises.Deciding which approach to use is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, needs, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they will try approaches that fit the client's rhythm and adjust the plan as progress or challenges appear.
Practical benefits of online work include fitting sessions into a busy week and making it easier to attend from different locations. Confirm the currently offered session formats before booking, since specific formats are not listed in the biography. Many people find that scheduling shorter check-ins, using audio-only when bandwidth is limited, or keeping sessions to a regular weekday evening helps therapy fit around family and work demands.
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Experience
13+ years
Listed in
Massachusetts
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she address related to home life?
She works with stress, parenting strain, blended family issues, fatherhood questions, and communication problems within family relationships.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is direct and client-centered, using practical exercises, mindfulness, and skills practice rather than abstract discussion alone.
How much experience does she have?
She has 13 years of experience in mental health counseling, including crisis intervention, group therapy, and intensive treatment settings.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She is an LMHC (Licensed Mental Health Counselor) with a MA LMHC credential and practices from Massachusetts.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. She is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
Please confirm current session options before booking, as the biography does not list specific formats.
How does pricing work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.