Dr. Amanda Student (she/her)

Solution Based Therapy is a goal-oriented technique that utilizes your personal history to aid in responding to present day challenges. By learning more about your strengths and resilience we will work together to help you identify what approaches, skills, or coping methods are most useful in your current situation. This is a person-centered approach that will help you to understand what works in certain areas of your life and apply it to other areas of your life.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a modified form of CBT that was designed to help people let go of self-defeating patterns. DBT is commonly utilized to decrease anxiety, manage stress, alleviate depression and improve relationships with the people in your life. DBT helps you to regulate your emotions by learning about triggers that lead you to react in detrimental ways and then practicing appropriate coping skills.

Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) is a structured, person-centered form of psychotherapy. The goal is to modify unhelpful patterns of thinking and behaving. CBT is effective at treating depression, anxiety-related disorders, including phobias and OCD (obsessive compulsive disorders), SUD’s (substance use disorders), PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) and Bipolar Disorders. You will learn to monitor negative thoughts, replace irrational thoughts with more reasonable, empowering ones.

Do you ever just feel overwhelmed and shaky? This can be anxiety. Anxiety can creep into our lives in an attempt to protect ourselves from perceived danger. At times you may find yourself getting overwhelmed about everything or you may feel that being worried all the time is the norm. When faced with a decision, you think through every possible scenario to the point of delirium. You’re exhausted and want relief from your overly anxious mind.

When experiencing difficult emotions, we often want to escape them. We seek out ways to avoid the pain and find something that feels controllable and manageable. Food is often your worst enemy but it can also feel like your savior when everything feels like it is too much to handle. You’ve come to rely on food, whether you are eating too much or too little and you might think “I just want to eat like a normal person”. Unfortunately, we know that this cycle does not work in the long run. We can c

Trauma is a first hand experience or witnessing or being a part of something dangerous, threatening or scary. Trauma can be a one-time event or complex (happen repeatedly over a span of time). Trauma can range anywhere from emotional, verbal, financial and sexual abuse to being in a war, seeing a horrible car crash, constant medical problems, etc. Everyone copes with trauma differently. In therapy, the primary goal is that we cultivate safety and trust in order to process, work through this pai

Trauma is a first hand experience or witnessing or being a part of something dangerous, threatening or scary. Trauma can be a one-time event or complex (happen repeatedly over a span of time). Trauma can range anywhere from emotional, verbal, financial and sexual abuse to being in a war, seeing a horrible car crash, constant medical problems, etc. Everyone copes with trauma differently. In therapy, the primary goal is that we cultivate safety and trust in order to process, work through pain

When experiencing difficult emotions, we often want to escape them. We seek out ways to avoid the pain and find something that feels controllable and manageable. Food is often your worst enemy but it can also feel like your savior when everything feels like it is too much to handle. You’ve come to rely on food, whether you are eating too much or too little and you might think “I just want to eat like a normal person”. Unfortunately, we know that this cycle does not work in the long run.