- Focus on trauma healing
- Strengths-based approach
- Skills and insight
About Amanda
Amanda Irwin-Rugg is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Pennsylvania who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and major life changes. She frames the work around each person's strengths and goals, and aims to offer steady support through difficult moments. The first contact is meant to feel straightforward and practical, with steps to move forward that are clear and manageable.
She uses a mix of therapy approaches including attachment-focused work, cognitive behavioral strategies, and trauma-focused methods such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, alongside client-centered and skills-based elements. Sessions tend to focus on identifying patterns that cause distress and building tools to manage difficult emotions. Amanda emphasizes collaboration so clients help set the pace and priorities in therapy.
With four years of professional experience as an LCSW, Amanda has worked with people who have experienced abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, attachment difficulties, body image concerns, codependency, communication and control struggles, dissociation, and domestic violence, among other challenges. She also supports those dealing with eating and food-related struggles and mood regulation concerns such as Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder.
Amanda describes therapy as a process that draws on what clients already know about themselves. She aims to create a calm, realistic plan for change and coping. People who reach out can expect a direct, empathetic approach that focuses on practical steps and emotional understanding.
She uses a mix of therapy approaches including attachment-focused work, cognitive behavioral strategies, and trauma-focused methods such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, alongside client-centered and skills-based elements. Sessions tend to focus on identifying patterns that cause distress and building tools to manage difficult emotions. Amanda emphasizes collaboration so clients help set the pace and priorities in therapy.
With four years of professional experience as an LCSW, Amanda has worked with people who have experienced abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, attachment difficulties, body image concerns, codependency, communication and control struggles, dissociation, and domestic violence, among other challenges. She also supports those dealing with eating and food-related struggles and mood regulation concerns such as Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder.
Amanda describes therapy as a process that draws on what clients already know about themselves. She aims to create a calm, realistic plan for change and coping. People who reach out can expect a direct, empathetic approach that focuses on practical steps and emotional understanding.
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