Meet Amanda
Amanda Almodovar, MSW, LCSW
Throughout her life, Amanda has been the resource that people turn to for setting goals and processing big feelings. Her specialities in trauma, attachment, and human development combined with solution-focused modalities will help you alchemize any challenge that comes your way. Her favorite moment with clients is the relief and accomplishment she can share when you’ve set a goal and later come back to say “I DID IT!”
Amanda has two decades of mental health experience with children, adolescents, adults and families. She began her training in 2004 at the Joint Master of Social Work program of UNC Greensboro and NC A&T, graduating with honors in 2006. Fifteen years of her post-MSW career focused on individual and group interventions for public school students in central NC.
Combining her passion for person-centered connections and love for local communities, she integrated her creative writing into multiple performing arts groups beginning in 2016. Progressing through creative opportunities has brought her to work nationally and internationally with groups such as the Dramatists Guild, ASCAP, the PlayGround Experiment, the LA Play Reading Group, and the NYC Short Film Club.
In 2023, Amanda began formal training with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators as well as multiple other performance advocacy organizations. As an intimacy and mental health professional for film and theatre, Amanda facilitates consent-based performance spaces and choreographs vulnerable moments with actors and directors. Outside of art, Amanda is also a wife of 19 years and co-parent of three adolescents and one quirky rescued pup.
Amanda’s priority with Kildaire Counseling is to provide individualized, strengths-based, empowering psychotherapy for artists seeking support in creative spaces and beyond. Her joy is helping you facilitate the changes that YOU WANT.
THERAPY MODALITIES
I have an eclectic approach with foundations in many modalities, including:
Polyvagal Theory and Mind/Body Connections
Attachment Theory
Trauma Focus including Adverse Childhood Experiences
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Motivational Interviewing
Mindfulness
Art Therapy
Bibliotherapy
Narrative Therapy
Play Therapy
“The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths, it has its pearls too.”
I PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR:
Emotional Regulation
Life Transitions
Work/Life Balance
Stress Management
Values Clarification
Coping with Loss
Breaking Cycles of Dysfunction
Overcoming Trauma
Anxiety
Depression
“Stuck” mode/”Creative Blocks”
Motivation
…and more!
“You are not a drop in the ocean; you are the entire ocean in a drop.”