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About

Amanda Schweig, LCSW

I have been practicing clinial social work in Western North Carolina since 2015. My journey to becoming a therapist began with my fascination with the human spirit and capacity for resilience—how we navigate life's challenges and find meaning even in difficult circumstances. This curiosity led me through work in community mental health and crisis services before establishing my private practice in 2024.

As someone who has navigated my own journey of healing spiritual trauma, I bring both professional expertise and personal understanding to our work together. I believe that change and healing is made possible by authentic connection, so creating a warm, trusting, and secure environment for the therapeutic relationship is foundational to our work together. I also believe that you enter the recovery process with everything you need, and our work is a matter of stripping away layers, increasing the ability to live in our bodies in the present, and promoting trust in self.

In sessions, you'll find I'm engaged, sometimes gently challenging, and often bringing warmth and even humor into our work together. I value transparency and will share my observations and reactions when it serves our work.

Outside the therapy room, you might find me on long walks or crouched in a creek looking for cool rocks, relaxing with my cats and my partner on our screened porch, or lost in a fantasy novel—activities that help me maintain the balance and presence I bring to our sessions.

and more about my rates.

My fee for a 55 minute session of individual therapy is $150. 

I have limited slots for sliding scale and those using insurance; please inquire for more info. I am happy to provide a superbill if you choose to seek reimbursement independently.

My clinical home is the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM), a cutting-edge approach specifically designed for resolving complex trauma and developmental wounding. This depth-oriented framework allows us to address not just what happened to you, but how those experiences shaped your adaptive strategies and identity.

Our work together begins with understanding what you want for yourself. From this foundation of agency, we use curiosity and compassionate inquiry to explore what stands between you and your authentic desires. Clients describe me as both warm and direct, creating a space where transformation becomes possible without overwhelming your system.

I integrate other modalities when beneficial, including EMDR for processing specific traumatic memories and the Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM) for building nervous system regulation skills.

 

Our therapeutic journey isn't about pathologizing your survival strategies—it's about honoring their wisdom while building capacity for new possibilities. Together, we'll:

  • Develop a compassionate understanding of how your adaptations served you

  • Explore present-moment experiences that reflect earlier patterns

  • Build capacity to stay connected to yourself even amid difficult emotions

  • Gradually integrate disowned aspects of yourself into a more cohesive sense of identity

  • Discover new ways of relating that may not have been safe or supported in your developmental environment

Clients share that our work helps them feel "at home in themselves" for perhaps the first time—developing a relationship with themselves characterized by curiosity rather than criticism, flexibility rather than rigidity, and agency rather than submission to internalized external authority.

We’ll work on it together.

More about my style.

Areas of focus include:

Recovery from high control situations and relationships 

Religious & spiritual trauma; purity culture

Healing from event, attachment and complex traumas

Identity exploration & reclamation

Mood and interpersonal struggles

Life transitions

I'm CURRENTLY TAKING  NEW CLIENTS.

Before we start, I'm available for a phone call to answer any questions and better understand your goals for therapy.

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