Amanda King

I have been practicing for 11 years. I am passionate about providing a safe space for trauma survivors, LGBTQ, polyamorous individuals and couples, and alternative lifestyles.

My clients often feel stuck, unsafe, feel they are a bad person, or feel shame around their identity. They call themselves doormat, people pleaser, or avoidant. They have past trauma or damaging childhood experiences that cause them to have unhealthy communication and inability to approach conflict. Couples come to me feeling they are stuck arguing about the same things. Some need help navigating confusing emotions and boundaries as they transition to non-monogamy. They question what life can look like long-term.

I have been described as direct, authentic, and humorous. I am versed and integrate a few different treatment strategies in my practice depending on your unique situation. I use attachment, trauma focused, and family systems theories to help you process your past, so that you may feel more whole and healthy in the present.

I believe most people have trauma or family dynamics that have stunted their growth and cause them to to feel stuck. I help individuals and couples understand how family, past relationships, and trauma affect your relationships, communication, and beliefs about yourself and the world. I am skilled at navigating the transition to polyamory, working through hotspots, and building safe emotional connection.

I hope to help you build healthy attachment with yourself and others, grow as an individual, and live authentically in your values. I hope to help couples and families learn how to validate one another, problem solve, communicate in healthy ways, and encourage each other to thrive.

In the consultation, I will briefly introduce myself and tell you about my background. I will ask about your past experience in therapy, what brings you to therapy now, what your expectations are for me, and explain how to get started.

In the intake session, I will discuss more deeply what brings you to therapy, your treatment history, family and social history, and what we might work on first.