Amanda Raether, LCSW

Amanda Raether is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in Kentucky with seven years of professional experience. She has provided individual and group therapy, mentorship, and advocacy to both adults and children and has worked with people from a wide range of backgrounds who face diverse life challenges.

Amanda often supports clients coping with depression, anxiety, insomnia, trauma, substance use concerns, grief, and struggles with self-esteem and self-worth. Her approach blends warmth, empathy, and encouragement with techniques selected to match each person’s needs. She describes her style as client-centered and empowering, with attention to both behavioral patterns and deeper emotional themes.

Her clinical toolkit includes cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), mindfulness-based methods, motivational interviewing, narrative approaches, psychodynamic ideas, solution-focused strategies, and trauma-focused therapy. Amanda adapts the length and focus of treatment depending on whether short-term problem solving or longer-term work is most appropriate, tailoring interventions so that the plan reflects each client’s goals and circumstances.

She values the therapeutic relationship as the foundation for change and seeks to create a patient-specific environment where people feel heard and supported. Amanda also shares a guiding message she often repeats to others: "If you are ready to change, you will find a way." That perspective informs her hopefulness about clients' capacity to pursue different paths and make meaningful shifts in their lives.