Meet Your Therapist
Amanda Lucas, MSW, LMSW
About Amanda
Hi, I am Amanda, a clinical therapist and integrative wellness expert for adolescents, adults, families and couples. I have an extensive history working with all age populations, demographics, and genders in healthcare systems and in-home services. Whether you are feeling stressed, annoyed and embarrassed, hopeless and stuck, fearful, angry, and confused, I am here with an empathetic ear. I will listen to you purposefully and create a safe space where you will not be judged. I approach individuals and families holistically, taking into account mind, body and spirit to assist in people in achieving the goal of creating a life worth living and sharing.
Service Rate & Insurance
Amanda is in-network with United Healthcare and considered out-of-network for all other insurances. Self Pay rates for individual therapy are $105 per therapy hour, family therapy is $150 per therapy hour.
Focus Areas & Specialties
I specialize in working with adolescents, families, couples, and healthcare workers. I specialize in eating disorders and disordered eating. I am especially passionate about helping individuals and families improve their relationship to food and their bodies by combating the effects of diet culture. I help families develop skills for communication, validation and redefining the family systems’ relationships with each other and food and body. Amanda is also the founder of Chews Your Health, a program dedicated to the integrative wellness of all and working to provide evidence based information, valuable knowledge and experience to counteract diet culture and the harm it places on our society.
Therapeutic Training & Background
I am a Level 1 Radically Open Dialectical Behavioral Therapist (RO-DBT). I incorporate principles of Acceptance and Commitment therapy (ACT) and draw upon my vast experience in working in various healthcare settings as a wellness specialist.
In addition to my therapy and social work experience and training, I am also have a lifetime of learning the science of holistic health, coupled with various certifications and degrees in alternative medicine and physical therapy, including HLC, AAS, CNC, and B.S. Alt. Medicine.
I am working under the supervision of Kelsey Esser, MSW, LCSW. I serve on The Current’s Eating Disorder Consultation Team and RO-DBT Consultation Team.
Professional Style
I believe YOU –-whatever your age, are the expert on your life, and I will bring my expertise in therapy to collaboratively find the relief and the balance or flexibility you seek. In every session, you will find me to be very transparent and chill with a bit of humor. I am also a wife, mother and grandmother.
