Hello! After completing clinical social work studies at Saint Louis University's College of Public Health and Social Justice in 2014, I practiced community mental health in hospice and adult outpatient throughout Monmouth County, NJ till 2020. Intimacy with the dying process, alongside the inextricable link between chronic illness and trauma, created commitment to seek diverse tools for assisting clients while they are living. In 2023 I migrated from the Jersey Shore to the San Juan Wilderness.

psychodynamic and analytic, existential, somatic, relational, ancestral, animist and feminist. respects all beings. LGBTQIA affirmative. committed to decolonizing therapy and antiracism.

I became a certified EMDR therapist with EMDRIA in 2020 and maintain member/mentorship, alongside cultivating fidelity to IFS informed EMDR protocols.

https://www.emdria.org/directory/people/amanda-a-patterson/

Clients can expect an interactive, solution-focused therapist that looks at an individual, along with what is happening systemically. Clients can expect supportive and practical feedback to assist in effectively addressing personal life challenges. Clients can expect integrative methodologies and techniques offered in a distinctly personalized approach. I build on existing strengths to facilitate learning how commitment to growth takes shape unique to each of us.