Amanda Marcum, LCSW

Amanda Marcum is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Indiana. She brings 18 years of clinical experience and a steady, compassionate style to sessions. Amanda focuses on practical ways to manage stress, anxiety, grief, relationship struggles, addiction concerns, and midlife transitions.

Amanda earned a Master of Social Work from Indiana University in 2007 with a specialization in Children and Families. Over nearly two decades she has worked with adolescents, adults, and parents in a range of settings. Her background includes supporting people through trauma and abuse, mood disorders, LGBT stressors, and parenting or family challenges.

In sessions she centers the relationship between therapist and client. Amanda emphasizes listening, acceptance, and straightforward feedback. She helps people increase self-awareness, notice patterns, and take concrete steps when they feel stuck.

Her approach draws on client-centered care, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused work. That mix lets Amanda tailor sessions to immediate goals like coping with stress or longer-term shifts such as career or identity changes.

Amanda usually makes time for messaging, live chat, phone, and video sessions and generally keeps weekday hours. She encourages people to ask questions about scheduling and to match on what feels most comfortable before beginning. Many find that regular check-ins help move through day-to-day struggles toward clearer next steps.

How therapeutic approaches shape online work

Amanda blends client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to address real problems in everyday life. Client-centered work means the conversation follows the person's pace and priorities so they feel heard and understood. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression and to improve coping.

She also uses mindfulness in session to help people notice physical sensations and steady attention when emotions feel overwhelming. These approaches are chosen to match the situation - for example mindfulness can help with stress and grounding, while CBT is useful for tackling patterns that keep someone stuck. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals and preferences.

Confirm the exact online session options with Amanda before booking. Her background notes messaging, live chat, phone, and video as ways she connects with clients, and she generally has weekday availability. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time so people can access support from work or home when quieter surroundings are available.