Amanda Roche is a queer, cisgender, white, and neurodivergent registered associate marriage and family therapist who currently serves LGBTQIA+ identified, neurodivergent, highly sensitive and sensory processing sensitive folks via telehealth in California. Additionally, she has a passion for educating parents on responsive parenting practices to create attunement and nurture connection. She also provides letters of support for gender affirming care.

Amanda’s therapeutic approach integrates her own lived experience and is trauma-informed, LGBTQIA+ affirming, and relational. She incorporates feminist, client-centered, humanistic, psychodynamic theories and mindfulness practices in her work with clients. She has special interest in polyvagal theory and nervous system regulation to foster social engagement and connection.

Amanda believes that finding community and cultivating joy fosters healing and is vital to overall wellness. She views therapy as collaborative and non-hierarchical and leads with curiosity and understanding. She feels that informed consent throughout the therapeutic process is essential in building trust and providing trauma-informed care. Amanda welcomes direct feedback from her clients to support the therapeutic relationship. She is HAES aligned and COVID-conscious.

Amanda acknowledges the inextricable link between systems of oppression and mental health and recognizes the ongoing trauma of these systems on systematically oppressed folks. Amanda resides on the traditional lands of the Muwekma, Ohlone and Tamien Nation People and supports the land back movement globally. She also believes that anti-racism education and practice is a requirement for all white identified therapists and she is a lifelong learner in this area.

In her free time, Amanda enjoys weightlifting, parenting two amazing kiddos and caring for her foster animals.