Amanda Ihle , LCSW

Amanda Ihle is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Oregon with 16 years of clinical experience. She has extensive experience supporting people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship challenges, trauma, and abuse. Her background includes eight years of providing addiction medicine treatment in Washington State, working with Clark County Juvenile Court and delivering on-campus services across several school districts in southwest Washington. For the past eight years she has worked as a clinical social worker in a level one trauma emergency room in Portland, bringing crisis care experience to her therapeutic work.

Amanda emphasizes an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be expressed honestly. She combines practical experience from court, school-based, and emergency settings to help clients navigate difficult transitions, grief, parenting and family conflicts, sleep and attention concerns, and challenges with intimacy, self-esteem, and coping skills. Her approach draws on evidence-informed methods to address both immediate concerns and longer-term patterns that affect relationships and daily functioning.

Amanda recognizes that beginning therapy requires courage and values collaborative work with each person to set goals and build skills at a manageable pace. As an LCSW, a licensed clinical social worker trained to provide assessment, treatment planning, and psychotherapy, she brings clinical judgment and a strengths-based orientation to support clients through change.

Practical approaches and online care

Amanda draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy to guide her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice and accept difficult thoughts and feelings while clarifying personal values and taking meaningful action - it can be useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on understanding relational patterns that develop from early connections and aims to improve how people relate to others, which can be helpful for intimacy, abandonment concerns, and family conflict.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Amanda works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods best fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they assess what feels most useful in the moment and adapt methods over time to support progress and emotional resilience.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet with a licensed professional, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life transitions, and access care from home or other convenient locations. Amanda uses these modalities to provide consistent, goal-oriented support while honoring each person’s pace and circumstances.