Amanda Lee, MSW, LCSWA, LMSW
Amanda is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker Assoc. in NC and Licensed Master Social Worker in NY specializing in working with children, teens, parents, couples, and families, helping with issues such as self-esteem, anxiety, depression, trauma, and developmental disabilities.
Skilled in working with young children, adolescents, teenagers, young adults, adults, parents, couples, and families in order to create and maintain a healthy foundation for all involved in therapy, Amanda meets people where they are. She consistently builds strong therapeutic alliances with her clients. She will walk alongside you to help you achieve your own unique goals.
Amanda believes the most important part of therapy is the relationship that is established between the client and therapist; she understands the level of vulnerability and trust that this requires as she has been in therapy consistently over the past several years to help her work through her own presenting anxieties and life transitions. Through the utilization of unconditional positive regard, you are completely accepted by Amanda wherever you are in your life journey.
By working with Amanda, you should expect to feel validated, accepted, and heard while working through presenting and past difficulties. Her motto is: Come as you are!
Amanda believes the most important part of therapy is the relationship that is established between the client and therapist; she understands the level of vulnerability and trust that this requires as she has been in therapy consistently over the past several years to help her work through her own presenting anxieties and life transitions. Through the utilization of unconditional positive regard, you are completely accepted by Amanda wherever you are in your life journey.
By working with Amanda, you should expect to feel validated, accepted, and heard while working through presenting and past difficulties. Her motto is: Come as you are!
Qualifications |
Amanda earned her Masters degree in Social Work with a specialization in advanced clinical interventions and adolescent development from Stony Brook University, located in Stony Brook, New York. She also earned her Bachelors degree in Psychology from Saint Joseph’s College, also located in her home state of New York.
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Counseling Background |
Amanda has been working in private practice as a clinician for several years on Long Island, New York. Through this practice, she has gained extensive experience working with young children, adolescents, teenagers, and young adults. She has also worked as an inpatient social worker at Pilgrim State Psychiatric Facility running group therapies for people with severe emotional disturbances. In graduate school, Amanda completed internships at Child Protective Services as a caseworker and at Farmingville Mental Health Clinic as a psychotherapist. She also has a passion for engaging in political activism and advocacy work for underprivileged groups.
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Specialization |
Amanda has a passion for working with children, adolescents, and teenagers. She has extensive experience and education in helping this population with trauma, anxiety, ADHD, depression, Autism/ASD, depression, impulsive behaviors, Oppositional Defiance Disorder, life transitions, anger management, family dysfunction, and self-esteem difficulties. Amanda also enjoys working with parents and families, as well as providing couples therapy for partners in relationships.
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Personal Life |
Amanda is a recent “transplant” to North Carolina from Long Island, New York, where she was born, raised, and lived for her entire life. Amanda currently lives with her husband and their two rescue dogs, Macy and Cookie, in their new home in North Carolina. Outside of work, Amanda enjoys yoga, cooking, playing Animal Crossing, and re-watching The Office for the 10000th time (which she can--and will--quote extensively!).
Family is a priority to Amanda, who maintains a close relationship with her parents and teenage brother. Amanda’s brother is the reason she pursued the field of counseling, as he had been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder as a child. Amanda was inspired by her parents’ support of her younger brother and has been passionate about serving others ever since. Amanda is also a lover of coffee and all things Disney! She's always planning her next Disney trip, which her husband promised at least once a year in their wedding vows--a promise that she has held him to for several years! 
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