Amanda Hager, LPC

Amanda Hager is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey with eight years of clinical experience. She approaches therapy as an active, collaborative process that adapts to each person's changing needs. Amanda pays attention to how life experiences, culture, community, and family stories shape how someone feels and behaves.

She avoids seeing people as just a list of symptoms. Instead she focuses on strengths clients already have and helps them use those strengths to build emotional skills. Amanda spends time learning each person's story and the social pressures that influence it.

Her experience includes work with eating disorders, attention-deficit hyperactivity concerns, intense or high-risk thoughts and behaviors, and LGBTQ+ people including transgender clients. She also has experience supporting people living with HIV/AIDS and those facing complex grief, including loss by suicide.

Amanda often helps people facing relationship concerns, intimacy-related issues, identity questions, depression, anxiety, stress, and addiction. She also works with concerns like body image, codependency, blended family challenges, and communication problems.

In sessions she aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where people can say things they might not feel safe saying elsewhere. The focus is practical and person-centered: Amanda listens, reflects back what she hears, and helps shape steps people can try between meetings.

How Amanda's Approaches Translate to Online Work

Amanda uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person's needs and perspective, listening closely and reflecting what matters to the client so goals come from the client's own priorities. This approach helps with issues like low self-esteem, life transitions, and relationship difficulties.

She also draws on narrative therapy, which looks at the stories people tell about themselves. Together the therapist and client separate unhelpful storylines from values and strengths, which can be useful for coping with identity questions, shame, or past hurt.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Amanda treats approach as collaborative and flexible. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, and then tailor the work as needs change.

Session options are not specified in the profile, so confirm current session formats before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Many people find remote sessions let them maintain continuity of care during life transitions and make regular appointments simpler to keep.