Amanda Vaughn
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Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT Specialties • Insurance & Fees • LocationsShe/Her/Hers
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT Specialties • Insurance & Fees • LocationsAmanda Vaughn is a Licensed Psychotherapist in Providence, Rhode Island. She has a special interest in helping individuals through life transitions and in helping people answer questions like, "Why am I the way I am?". Often life can look a bit different than we imagined; whether it's related to our relationships, career path, parenting challenges, or overall levels of happiness. Amanda also sees teenagers through adults for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She is an interactive therapist who collaborates with clients and offers direct feedback when appropriate to help achieve their goals.
Amanda has expertise in working with individuals processing trauma and grief. Amanda believes we are the sum of our experiences. The work of therapy, at its core, is to make the subconscious conscious. This includes processing and healing from the life events which have shaped us. These experiences are carried in our minds and bodies. Healing will begin from the inside out.
Amanda has worked extensively with individuals and couples facing infertility, postpartum depression, and perinatal mental health. She is an adoption competent therapist, providing psychotherapy to adoptees.
Amanda received her Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy from The Family Institute at Northwestern University along with extensive clinical training at The Family Institute’s Bette D. Harris Family and Child Clinic. She is trained in individual, couples, and family therapy. Amanda has also received post-graduate training in Child Parent Psychotherapy, as well as in the assessment and treatment of perinatal mood disorders. She provides screenings for egg donors, surrogates, as well as egg and sperm donor recipients.
Trauma - Identifying sources of trauma, trauma responses, PTSD treatment
Anxiety - Generalized anxiety, social anxiety, panic attacks
Infertility - Experience working with infertility, pregnancy loss, perinatal psychology (mental health issues while pregnant), and peripartum / postpartum depression
Peripartum mental health - Anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns specific to childbearing women and their families; Navigating complex emotions and the transition to parenthood during pregnancy and the postpartum period
Couples counseling - Improving communication and problem solving skills with couples from all gender and sexual identities
Life transitions - Adjusting to college, new relationships, career transitions and direction; mid-life existential, relationship, and career challenges; losing one’s drive or burn out; learning self-care
Depression - Sleep and energy disruption, overall mood disturbance, inability to enjoy yourself, and difficulty being motivated, amongst many other symptoms
Adoption Competent Therapy - Sees adoptees across the stages of “coming out of the fog”, adoption related trauma and grief. Birth family reunions.
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Private Practice, 2012 - Present
Northwestern University, Masters of Marriage and Family Therapy, 2008
Rhode Island: MFT00176
English