Amanda Hager, LPC

Amanda Hager is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey. She brings eight years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on understanding each person as an individual. Amanda emphasizes collaboration so clients shape the work and goals together. She pays attention to how life experience, culture, family, and social systems influence well-being. Amanda avoids approaches that reduce people to symptoms and instead highlights individual strengths. Her background includes work with eating disorders, ADHD, complex grief, and people living with HIV/AIDS. Amanda also has experience supporting queer and transgender clients and parents of transgender teens and adults. She includes attention to identity, community context, and nontraditional sexual cultures, such as BDSM and kink, when relevant to a person's concerns. She helps people talk through relationship and intimacy issues, stress, anxiety, depression, and problems with self-esteem. Her style is open and nonjudgmental. Sessions tend to be conversational and focused on practical steps a person can try between meetings. Amanda uses approaches that center the client's voice, personal meaning, and short-term goal work to help people move through life changes. People who choose Amanda often want a therapist who listens closely, notices cultural and systemic influences, and works with them to build on existing strengths. Prospective clients are encouraged to consider how her experience aligns with their needs before scheduling.

How Amanda’s Approaches Translate to Online Work

Amanda uses Client-Centered Therapy to focus on the person's experience and immediate concerns, keeping the client's voice central to sessions. This approach supports work on self-esteem, identity, and coping with life changes. She also draws on Narrative Therapy to help people reframe the stories they tell about themselves and their relationships, which can be useful for issues like grief, gender identity questions, and recovery from shame.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Amanda collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. She reviews options together and adjusts the plan as a client's situation changes so therapy stays relevant and practical.

If you are considering online options, confirm the therapist's current session formats before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also lets people continue work during life transitions without needing to rearrange long commutes. Licensed professionals, including this therapist, can discuss which format will best match your goals and daily routine.