Amanda has always been interested in mental health and herself practices yoga and meditation. When she’s not at Transcend, working in the ER, or doing schoolwork you can find her playing tennis or practicing martial arts. Amanda is currently pursing her post-masters education to become dual certified as an emergency nurse practitioner in addition to her family nurse practitioner specialty. After completing her master's Amanda started working as a nurse practitioner in the ER as well as Transcend.
As a paramedic she has worked both rural and inner-city EMS.
From there she worked as both a Registered Nurse and Paramedic.Īs a nurse she has worked in several settings including the ICU, ER, and progressive care. This down-to-Earth approach makes Anna a great fit for working with adolescents and young adults, which is a population she specializes in at her private practice outside of Transcend.Īmanda, our Nurse Practitioner, has been working in the healthcare field over 10 years starting at the age of 19 working as an EMT. She has been known to roll out a yoga mat and get on the floor with clients to join them in preparatory breathwork or somatic exercises pre-infusion. Without a sense of safety with another, one can't be expected to be vulnerable, and it's only in moments of vulnerability that growth occurs. In session with Anna, you can expect her to bring a sense of realness and genuine warmth to the room, which she believes is integral for healing and growth. Anna’s approach incorporates a framework of Polyvagal Theory, Somatic Experiencing, Attachment Theory, and CBT to highlight the neurobiological underpinnings of what “safety” means to us and how a lack of safety can affect our relationships, beliefs about ourselves, and beliefs about the world. Today, Anna brings her expertise as a trauma-informed psychotherapist as well as lived experience as a yogic practitioner into her work at Transcend by providing a form of therapy that focuses on the mind-body connection.
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This setting has also benefitted Anna’s professional development by providing extensive training in suicidality risk assessment and management, trauma-informed psychotherapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) methodologies. Thanks to her background in this high acuity setting, Anna is very familiar with what it looks like to truly join a client in their darkest hour. Anna has accumulated 3 years of experience in a psychiatric inpatient hospital setting both as a pre-graduate practicum student and as a post-graduate clinician providing psychotherapeutic care to humans in crisis.
Edward’s University in 2017 after completing her undergraduate degree in Psychology at Louisiana State University. Anna received her Master of Arts in Counseling from St.
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