Amanda Hager is a licensed professional counselor who brings eight years of clinical experience to her practice in New Jersey.
01About Amanda
Amanda Hager is a licensed professional counselor who brings eight years of clinical experience to her practice in New Jersey. She focuses on getting to know each person as an individual and pays attention to how life experiences shape well-being. Amanda emphasizes collaboration and flexibility so treatment can shift as needs change.
Amanda listens for how culture, family stories, community, and social systems affect daily life. She avoids approaches that reduce people to a list of symptoms.
Background and approach
Instead she helps clients identify strengths they already have and use them to build stronger emotional skills. Her work includes support for people facing depression, anxiety, stress, and burnout. She also addresses trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, addiction and substance issues, eating and body image struggles, and grief.
She offers care for concerns related to gender identity, LGBT experiences, and HIV/AIDS as part of a broader focus on identity and safety. In sessions Amanda uses client-centered listening along with narrative and existential approaches to help clients name their stories and make meaning from difficult experiences.
She also uses solution-focused strategies to identify practical next steps and small changes that make a difference. Amanda aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where people can say things they may not be able to elsewhere. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, and she works with each person to set realistic goals and manageable steps toward them.
02Credentials
- LPC (New Jersey)
- License 37PC00884200 · expires November 2026
- NPI
- 1336704931 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Amanda lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Depression
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Methods Amanda names
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04Online support
Approach and Access for Online Therapy
Amanda uses client-centered work to focus on the person's experience and priorities. This approach means sessions center on listening and reflecting so clients feel understood and can choose the path forward. It is helpful for people needing emotional support, clarity, or a place to be heard.She also uses narrative therapy to help people identify the stories they tell about themselves. That work helps separate a person's values and goals from painful or limiting messages they picked up over time. Narrative approaches often suit people dealing with identity questions, body image, or past hurts.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Amanda discusses goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then tries methods that match those aims. She adapts direction as progress and needs evolve, so therapy stays relevant and practical.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual connection. Phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text allow short check-ins, quick coping strategies, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while keeping care consistent and flexible.
05Questions people ask
What concerns does Amanda focus on?
She works with depression, anxiety, stress, trauma and abuse, addictions, eating and body image issues, grief, self-esteem, ADHD, and relationship or intimacy-related concerns.
What is Amanda's therapy style like?
Her style is collaborative and flexible. Amanda listens closely, helps you tell your story, and looks for practical steps to move forward.
What experience does she bring?
Amanda has eight years of clinical experience and has worked with people dealing with eating disorders, complex grief, high-risk thoughts and behaviors, and LGBT and transgender issues.
Where is Amanda licensed and based?
She is a licensed professional counselor, LPC, practicing in New Jersey and maintains her clinical work in that state.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English only.
Can people outside the United States work with Amanda?
International clients are not currently accepted; her practice is based in New Jersey.
What session formats are available?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different schedules and needs.
How does cost and scheduling work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on availability.
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