Amanda Vaughan, LMHC

Amanda Vaughan, MA LMHC, is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor practicing in Massachusetts with 13 years of clinical experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, addiction issues, grief, intimacy-related problems, parenting concerns, and compassion fatigue. Amanda describes her approach as direct and client-centered, and she uses mindfulness alongside cognitive and behavioral methods to build practical coping skills.

Amanda has worked in crisis intervention, group therapy, and intensive treatment settings. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy approaches to address thinking patterns, emotional regulation, and behavioral change. She also draws on existential ideas to help people clarify values and make meaningful choices.

Her style combines straightforward feedback with a client-centered attitude. Sessions often include learning and practicing coping skills such as mindfulness and DBT-based emotion regulation. She also addresses relational patterns, attachment issues, and family of origin dynamics when relevant.

Amanda lists additional focus areas including body image, codependency, communication problems, blended family issues, fatherhood issues, BDSM and kink identities, gender dysphoria, and substance use concerns. She works with a range of intimate and identity-related matters alongside mood and stress disorders.

Her background in several intensive settings informs a practical approach to treatment. She aims to help people build skills that fit into daily life and to clarify steps forward after crisis or during major life changes.

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