Amanda Miller-Hodges, LMHC, LPC

Amanda Miller-Hodges, LMHC, LPC, works with people who feel weighed down by anxiety, depression, overwhelming emotions, relationship strain, grief, or a loss of direction. She understands how persistent stress and uncertainty can shape day-to-day life and make it hard to see a way forward. Her approach emphasizes hope and practical change, helping clients examine unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors and develop steadier, more effective responses to life’s challenges.

She is a certified Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) therapist, drawing on mindfulness, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and distress tolerance skills to support clients in managing intense emotions and building a life that feels more workable and meaningful. Amanda is also a Certified Grief Informed Professional counselor (CGP), offering supportive guidance through the healing process by strengthening coping strategies and helping clients make sense of loss.

With over 15 years of experience, she has worked with adolescents, adults, and older adults across a range of settings, including individual, family, couples, and group work. Her background includes helping with concerns such as anxiety and panic, PTSD, self-harm behaviors, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, grief, abuse-related trauma, personality disorders, and addictions. She has also facilitated Intensive Outpatient (IOP) DBT skills training groups. Amanda tailors therapy to each person’s needs and responsiveness, incorporating approaches such as ACT, CBT, CPT for PTSD, client-centered therapy, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused therapy.