Amanda Gale, LCSW, CSW-PIP

Amanda Gale is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 12 years of clinical practice experience. She works from South Dakota and supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and anger among other concerns.

Amanda focuses on practical skills people can use right away. She helps clients build coping skills, solve problems, and increase confidence. She frames progress around the client's choices and prefers short-term work when appropriate - often 8 to 12 sessions - while offering ongoing supportive therapy if more time is needed.

Her approach centers on person-centered care and recovery-oriented principles. Amanda describes herself as a guide and mentor who helps people create a choice-based plan. Sessions look at strengths people already have and how to use those strengths to address areas that feel less strong.

She has experience providing individual, group, and family therapy services across a range of personal and professional issues. Amanda also supports caregivers who are dealing with stress related to illness or long-term conditions in loved ones. She aims to help clients identify practical circles of support and position those supports effectively.

Amanda draws from evidence-informed methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy. Her work is grounded in building skills and confidence so people can manage everyday stressors and move toward the life they want.

Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions can work