- Strengths based
- LGBT affirmative
- Practical steps
About Amanda
Dr. Amanda Veldorale-Griffin is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who focuses on helping people facing family and parenting challenges. She writes plainly and works collaboratively, helping parents and caregivers find practical ways to ease stress and improve relationships. Her style aims to make starting therapy less intimidating and more useful for everyday life.
She combines years of experience with a straightforward, strengths-based approach. Sessions look at how patterns between people influence daily life, and she helps clients identify small, concrete changes that can make a difference. Therapy is presented as a joint effort where the client's knowledge about their family guides the work.
Her background includes a PhD in Family Relations and a Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy, alongside 17 years of clinical experience. That experience informs how she supports topics such as parenting strain, attachment concerns, communication problems, and family of origin issues. She also works with stress, anxiety, grief, mood conditions, and trauma-related concerns.
Dr. Veldorale-Griffin describes herself as LGBT affirmative and pays attention to issues like gender dysphoria, sexuality, and prejudice or discrimination when they affect family life. She also supports people navigating non-monogamous relationships and the complexities those arrangements can bring to communication and intimacy.
Her practice centers on helping people translate insights into doable steps. Sessions aim to build better interactions, clearer communication, and more manageable routines. Readers are encouraged to consider whether this collaborative, family-focused approach fits their needs before reaching out.
How relational approaches shape online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and responding to what a person brings to sessions, helping people feel understood and find their own solutions for family and parenting problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people notice key emotions and interaction patterns, which can lead to clearer communication and closer connections when feelings drive conflict or distance.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That decision is based on the client's needs, what has helped before, and what practical changes the client wants to make.
If you are considering online therapy, confirm the current session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, allow check-ins during lunch breaks, reduce travel time, and offer options when a shorter or camera-free meeting is preferred. Licensed professionals tailor session length and focus so therapy can address communication, parenting routines, attachment concerns, and emotion-focused work in ways that work for a household.
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Experience
17+ years
Listed in
Florida, Oregon
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she help with?
She works with a wide range of issues including family and parenting challenges, relationship and intimacy-related issues, stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, eating and anger concerns, self-esteem, career matters, bipolar and depression, and related topics.
What is her general therapeutic style?
The approach is collaborative and client-centered, focusing on strengths and practical solutions. Sessions aim to translate insight into concrete changes that fit daily life.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She brings 17 years of experience working in marriage and family therapy settings and with families on parenting and communication concerns.
What credentials and where is she licensed?
She is a LMFT and holds licensure in Florida and Oregon as FL LMFT and OR LMFT, and she practices out of Oregon for the services described here.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How are sessions scheduled and what do they cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin if I want to work together?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.