Amanda Miller-Hodges

Are you feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, grief, relationship challenges, or a sense that you’ve lost touch with who you are? Maybe you’ve been trying to hold everything together, but despite your best efforts, you still feel stuck, disconnected, or emotionally exhausted. You don’t have to navigate it alone, and meaningful change is possible.

As a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with over 16 years of experience, I work with individuals navigating anxiety, depression, grief, relationship difficulties, loss of identity, and overwhelming emotions.

My approach is compassionate, supportive, and practical. Together, we’ll identify patterns that may be keeping you stuck, better understand the emotions beneath them, and develop tools to help you respond to life’s challenges with greater confidence, clarity, and self-compassion.

Therapy isn’t about becoming a completely different person—it’s about understanding yourself more deeply, strengthening the skills you already have, and making changes that help you feel more like yourself again.

My approach to therapy is compassionate, practical, and focused on helping you create meaningful change in your everyday life. As a Certified DBT therapist, I incorporate mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness to help you better understand your emotions, manage overwhelming moments, improve relationships, and respond to challenges in healthier ways.

As a Certified Grief-Informed Professional, I also understand that grief extends beyond the death of a loved one. Loss can include relationships, identity, health, life transitions, or the future you thought you would have. I provide a supportive space to process these experiences, make sense of what has changed, and begin rebuilding meaning, resilience, and hope while honoring what you have lost.

Our first session is a chance for us to get to know each other and start understanding what brought you to therapy. You don’t need to know exactly what to say or have everything figured out before you arrive. I’ll help guide the conversation as we talk about what’s been happening, what feels difficult right now, and what you hope might be different.

My style is warm, conversational, and collaborative. I want therapy to be a place where you can be yourself without feeling judged or pressured to have the “right” answers. We’ll talk about your current concerns, explore important patterns or experiences that may be affecting you, and begin identifying goals that feel meaningful and realistic for your life.

Most importantly, our first session is about making sure you feel heard, understood, and comfortable working together. You can expect support and compassion, but also practical guidance and tools you can begin using outside of therapy. We’ll work together at a pace that feels manageable while helping you move toward feeling more confident, connected, and in control of your life.