Professional Roles

• Licensed Clinical Social Worker/Integrative Psychotherapist

• Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Provider (PAPT)

• Sexuality Therapist

• Sexuality Educator

• Postpartum Doula

• Functional Medicine Health Coach

• Kambo Practitioner

Clinical Experience

Amanda has worked with older adolescents and adults from diverse backgrounds, in:

• Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy retreats

• Community mental health settings

• Inpatient treatment

• Universities

• An outpatient wellness center

• Telephonically with employee assistance programs (civilian & military)

Before moving to Colorado in early 2018, Amanda ran a successful psychotherapy practice in Philadelphia and looks forward to continuing her work in Denver.

Educational Experience

• Serves as an Operations Teaching Assistant and Teaching Assistant for KAP (Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy) Retreats

• Led emotionally focused, educational discussion groups with medical students around sexual health and patient care

• Taught workshops on Kink/BDSM and consent and other sexuality-related topics

• Facilitated ESL and adult literacy groups

• Coordinated a multicultural mentoring program for undergraduate students

Clinical Focus

Amanda works with adult individuals and relationships (monogamous & consensually/ethically non-monogamous) seeking to:

• Improve their personal understanding of themselves and their relationships

• Shift negative patterns and create positive change

• Communicate more compassionately and effectively

• Better cope with the uncertainties of life

• Live with more presence, integrity, and authenticity

• Cultivate more connection and community

• Find more balance in the mind, body, and spirit

Interests & Specializations

• Interpersonal issues

• Sexuality-related concerns

  • Sexual identity

  • Gender identity

  • Ethical non-monogamy/polyamory

  • Kink/BDSM

  • Body image

  • Sexual dysfunctions

  • Sexual pain

  • Sexual incompatibilities

  • Sexual trauma

  • Pregnancy & postpartum

  • Infidelity

• Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (individuals, couples, groups)

• Psychedelic Integration

• Supporting music industry people and other creatives, as well as, their loved ones

• Chronic Illness

  • Individuals with (or supporting those with) chronic disabilities, illnesses, and/or pain

• Anxiety

• Depression

• Neurodivergence

  • Attentional issues/AD(H)D

  • Autism-spectrum

  • Highly-sensitive people

• Transitional struggles

• Grief/loss

• Self-esteem

Treatment Approach

• Trauma-informed, intersectional, strengths-based, sex-positive, authentic, and integrative

• Highly values the use of humor, empathy, and mindfulness in psychotherapy

• Finds merit in multiple, different modalities that she’s studied and utilized over the years:

  • Psychodynamic

  • Feminist

  • Somatic

  • Gestalt

  • Queer Theory

  • Existential

  • Positive Psychology

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

  • Mindfulness-Based

  • Attachment-Based

  • Parts Work/Internal Family Systems

  • Gottman Method

Amanda’s training and work experience as a sexuality educator, postpartum doula, functional medicine health coach, and social worker also informs her approach:

• Our environments, personal histories, and level of privilege (or lack thereof) strongly influence our experience of the world.

Amanda continually pursues opportunities for personal, educational, and professional growth and values her profession’s commitment to clinical improvement (clinical skills, client outcomes) via continuing education.

Integrative Approach

Amanda firmly believes in the symbiotic relationship of the mind, body, and spirit, and intentionally works with all clients to help them better attune to this connection and identify tools that not only help them feel better, but hopefully thrive. Her integrative approach involves:

• Education & Empowerment

• Lifestyle Modifications

• Coordination of Care

Education

• Master of Social Work, Widener University

• Master of Human Sexuality Education, Widener University

  • Sex Therapy Track

• Bachelor of Science, Spanish Minor, Temple University

Clinical License

• Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, Division of Professions and Occupations, #CSW.09925259

Recent Conferences, Certifications, and Trainings

• AASECT, Certified Sex Therapist, Application/Approval Pending- Supervision Hours Completed in 2023

• Medicine Frog Kambo, Kambo Practitioner Training, Santa Clarita, CA, April 2024

• The Art of Self-Healing Center, Neurodiversity 101, 2023

• Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), Psychedelic Science Conference, Denver, CO, June 2023

• Integrative Psychiatry Institute, Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Training, 2021-2022

  • Certified as a Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Provider (PAPT)

• PESI, Certified Mental Health Integrative Medicine Provider (CMHIMP) Training Course: Nutritional and Integrative Medicine for Mental Health Professionals, 2021

• PESI, Emotionally Focused Therapy with Sue Johnson, Ed.D.: On Target Couple Interventions in the Age of Attachment, 2021

• Functional Medicine Coaching Academy/Institute for Functional Medicine, Health Coach Certification Program, March 2019-February 2020

• Back to the Body, Embracing the Messiness in Life & Finding Your Hotness Anyway, 2019

• PESI, Hypnosis for Trauma & PTSD Certificate Course, 2019

• Explore More Summit, Online Sexuality Conference, 2019

• Omega Institute, Connecting Emotional Intelligence and the Wisdom of Awareness, 2017

• Birth Arts International, Postpartum Doula Training, 2016

• Gestalt Therapy Institute of Philadelphia, Experience the Difference: Gestalt Therapy, 2016

• Integrative Medicine for Mental Health Conference, 2015 & 2016

• Pennsylvania Society for Clinical Social Work, From Pathology to Celebration: Social Work’s Connection to Gender Liberation, 2015

• Penn Program for Mindfulness, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Certificate Course, 2014

Memberships