Be Here Now Psychotherapy | complex trauma therapist

You shouldn't have to choose between body and mind. In our work together, we attend to both.

I work with people who experienced trauma-particularly complex (C-PTSD), relational and family-of-origin wounds.

I also specialize in working with those navigating Borderline Personality Disorder, codependency, and recovery from complicated or abusive relationships.

I have an advanced understanding of Narcissistic Personality Disorder and how it affects relationships and recovery.

I bring depth psychology together with somatic interventions, and practical real-world guidance- so you gain immediate benefits from therapy, not just insight, but actual change in how you feel and move through life.

About

About Amanda

I know how hard it is to live authentically in this life.

I'm not perfectly lived, but I am real. I won't ask you to do work I haven't done myself.

I'm well-read, up to date on current theory, and classically trained in psychoanalytic psychology. But more importantly: no behavior, thought, fear, or disposition will create a moralistic response in me. I'm here to help you get out of shame so you can address your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors for what they are—not as weapons against your self-image or self-worth.

I care deeply about this work, and I love human beings. I have faith in humanity.

All your parts, selves, experiences, symptoms, and histories are welcome here. But know this: you are more than your stories. And you're probably 10x more awesome than you realize. Let's help you potentiate what's possible and release what's no longer serving you.

Treatment

Specializing in Borderline Personality Disorder, Trauma, Codependency, Narcissistic Abuse Recovery and more

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

Trauma

Codependency

I view BPD as a spectrum. While there are common threads—fear of abandonment, rejection sensitivity, people-pleasing, accommodation patterns—everyone's experience is different.

The fear of abandonment isn't just about relationships ending. It's about the terror of loss, the constant hypervigilance around rejection, and most damaging: self-abandonment and the inability to live authentically.

I work with trauma of all kinds—complex trauma (CPTSD), family-of-origin wounding, relational trauma, acute trauma, and everything in between. My focus is on helping you find true nervous system regulation—the ability to feel safe inside your own body and as safe as possible in the world.

A mentor of mine once said: people often learn how to put armor on, but they forget how to take it off. The goal isn't to be defenseless—it's to have the flexibility to protect yourself when needed and soften when it's safe.

Codependency goes far beyond the textbook definition of "making excuses for someone who uses substances." It's a complex pattern of self-abandonment that shows up as people-pleasing, overextending yourself to manage relationships, taking on a caretaking role to ensure a connection survives, and losing yourself in the process.

Codependency might look like extending endless compassion to an abusive partner instead of getting yourself to safety. It might look like feeling responsible for everyone's emotions but your own. It might look like not knowing where you end and someone else begins.

Narcissistic Abuse Recovery

Anxiety and Depression

Clinical Supervision for LSWs in PA

I can't diagnose someone in your life with Narcissistic Personality Disorder—but I can help you make sense of what you experienced. Narcissistic patterns aren't uncommon: chronic invalidation, shirking responsibility, blaming you for everything, inability to see you as a complex person with legitimate needs and feelings.

The hallmark of narcissistic relationships is that you disappear. Your needs, your reality, your very sense of self—gone. You might have felt crazy, like you were trying to convince someone that your feelings matter and getting nowhere. You couldn't get from point A to point B in a conversation because the goalpost kept moving.

Depression can act as a shutdown valve—your body's way of saying "this is too much" when life has remained at a high intensity for too long. It's protective, even when it doesn't feel that way. Sometimes depression is telling you that something in your life needs to change: a job that's draining you, a relationship that's not working, a version of yourself you've outgrown but don't know how to leave behind.

Anxiety can be a protective pattern—keeping you hyper-prepared for danger, scanning for threats, trying to control outcomes to keep you safe. But when anxiety runs unchecked, it can keep you stuck, unable to rest, unable to trust yourself or the world around you. Sometimes anxiety is pointing to real challenges you're facing alone that feel too big to handle without support.

I will begin offering clinical supervision for LSWs in the state of PA in January 2026, which will include a group + individual supervision cohort, so that you can develop community with your fellow peers while accumulating the hours you need to become an LCSW.

More details to come in the near future. Please free free to call or text me with questions

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