Amanda DiGenova, LMHC

Amanda DiGenova is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York. She brings ten years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on common life struggles like anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and the stress that comes with big life changes. Amanda frames therapy around practical steps that help people feel more steady in day-to-day life.

Her approach centers on listening, clear goals, and hands-on strategies. She uses client-centered methods to understand each person's priorities and CBT and DBT tools to teach coping skills and emotional regulation. Mindfulness practices and existential ideas are woven into sessions when people want to explore meaning and values.

Amanda often supports people facing family and parenting challenges, addiction and recovery concerns, intimacy and relationship issues, and occupational stress or burnout. She also works with people dealing with grief, trauma, and the fallout from major life transitions including midlife shifts. Her practice includes attention to body image, codependency, and alternative sexuality topics when clients bring those concerns.

Her style is encouraging and motivating, with a focus on aligning thoughts, behavior, and personal values. Amanda uses a holistic lens and sometimes discusses complementary approaches alongside therapy. Sessions aim to build skills, clarify choices, and reduce the daily strain that makes life harder.

To begin, people typically describe what matters most to them and set short-term goals. From there Amanda tailors practical exercises and reflective work to fit each person's needs and pace.

Using Talk Therapy, Skills Training, and Mindfulness Online

Amanda draws on client-centered work to place the client's priorities at the center of sessions, listening first and shaping goals around what matters to the individual. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thought patterns and test practical changes that reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete tools for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness when relationships are a major stressor.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will work together with each person to try methods, adjust techniques, and decide which combination of talk work, skill practice, or mindfulness exercises fits their goals and lifestyle.

Confirm current session formats before booking to know what options are available. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by removing travel time and allowing appointments during a lunch break or between commitments. It can also simplify short check-ins that focus on skill practice or homework review when time is limited. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT, DBT, and client-centered work to an online setting so progress remains focused on real-life changes and managing midlife, career, relationship, or caregiving strains.