Hi, I’m Amanda.
My work with adults, elders, and couples is grounded in authenticity, humor, creativity, and deep respect for each person’s unique journey. I believe healing and transformation—while often messy or uncertain—can also be deeply beautiful and empowering. I see therapy as a collaborative process, offering space to explore what’s difficult, brainstorm new possibilities, and experiment with meaningful change. Together, we can work toward greater self-trust, confidence, and connection with the life you want to live.
My approach is trauma-informed and mindfulness-based, integrating somatic therapy, Brainspotting, Gestalt therapy, parts work, Restoration Therapy, and nature-based practices. I draw on body awareness, present-moment experience, and curiosity to help clients explore patterns, process difficult experiences, and develop a deeper relationship with themselves. I support clients navigating anxiety (including OCD), grief, ADHD, chronic pain, life transitions, relationship challenges, and trauma, with a special focus in complex trauma and collective healing. When appropriate, our work may extend outdoors, using the natural world as a space for experiential healing, connection, and discovery. I’m LGBTQ+ affirming and committed to culturally responsive care.
I am a Professional Counselor Associate under the supervision of Justin Little, LMFT, and Katie Keck, LMFT.
I see clients online throughout Oregon and in person in Sisters, Oregon, including outdoor sessions when appropriate.
Professional Counselor Associate, Qualified Mental Health Professional
Amanda Frankel
Approach:
Individual + Couples Therapy
Individual Therapy is when a therapist helps one singular person through different areas of concern. Typically to address personal, professional, emotional, and psychological concerns.
Couples Therapy is when all partners in a committed relationship are treated at the same time by the same therapist. Typically to improve communication and build a stronger bond.
Areas of Specialty:
Life Transitions, Complex Trauma, Relationships/Couples
Life transitions are significant changes — planned or unexpected — like career shifts, divorce, loss, becoming a parent, or aging, that disrupt a person's sense of identity and stability, often bringing grief for what was left behind alongside anxiety about what comes next.
Complex trauma results from chronic, repeated traumatic experiences — often in childhood or close relationships — that deeply disrupt identity, emotional regulation, and the ability to feel safe in the world or with others.
Certifications:
A Level I certified RT therapist has been trained in Restoration Therapy — Terry Hargrave's research-based model combining Attachment Theory, mindfulness, and emotional regulation to help clients identify painful relational patterns and move toward genuine, lasting restoration.
Restoration Therapy Level I
Exposure therapy gradually and safely brings a person into contact with what they fear and avoid — helping the nervous system learn that the distress is tolerable and will pass.
Exposure Therapy
Mindfulness-based therapy
Mindfulness-based therapy certification requires both learning to facilitate practices like MBSR or MBCT with clients and developing a personal mindfulness practice — because practitioners are expected to embody what they teach
A Certified Death Doula is a trained companion who supports dying individuals and their families through the emotional, spiritual, and practical aspects of the end-of-life process — holding space for meaning, grief, and dignity when it matters most.
Death Doula Certified
A Certified Coach has completed a formal, accredited training program focused on helping clients set goals, overcome obstacles, and move forward — distinct from therapy in that coaching is future-focused rather than healing-oriented.