Online Therapy for Emotional Health
Mālama Trauma Counseling Services provides a unique and cutting edge perspective on therapy. Amanda Odish focuses on strengths-based, somatic, existential, and positive psychology techniques to assist clients suffering from the effects of trauma. Anxiety, depression, and most other "disorders" labeled in the DSM-V are believed to be rooted in traumatic experiences. Every traumatic experience is valid. Amanda will work with you to implement coping skills and techniques to increase your ability to function and thrive with resilience. Amanda's goal is to provide you with the unique set of tools you need to help yourself and be able to graduate from therapy.
About
Amanda Odish
Amanda Odish, LMFT, MSCP, CTHP, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who holds her Bachelor's of Science in Psychology from San Diego State University and holds a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology from Chaminade University of Honolulu. She is a Certified Therapeutic Harp Practitioner who has experience working in Hospice, using her harp as a therapeutic addition to palliative care services for the actively dying and their families. Amanda has also provided her therapeutic harp and voice services at over 80 facilities in Oahu, Hawaii, and San Diego, California, in service of those suffering from Alzheimer's disease and various ailments. She has been a professional harp, voice, and ukulele teacher for over a decade and enjoys incorporating the arts into therapy if desired. Amanda provides the option of using her therapeutic harp in sessions for relaxation exercises, well as biofeedback during therapy sessions.
Amanda lives on the Big Island of Hawaii and is passionate about providing clients with coping skills and tools to face their fears and care for their trauma, transforming suffering into strength, resilience, and positive growth. Amanda's compassionate warmth, empathy, non-judgmental understanding, and logical structured approach provides the client with the planning and flexibility to begin the healing process.
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Providing a treatment focus for Trauma-Spectrum Neurodivergent individuals, Amanda uses a Strengths-Based perspective to help you discover healthy coping tools to enhance your strengths while introducing skills to reduce suffering.
I am currently accepting new clients at this time for tele-health sessions.
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I am a systems therapist, which means that I look at the entirety of the relational and contextual system in which you exist. This way, dynamics that are dissonant may be able to become harmonious by using healthy coping skills. These include emotional intelligence, adaptive communication, and leaning about your unique attachment style.
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Various support groups will be held virtually or in person. Topics include: grief counseling, bereavement support, building strength and resilience with positive psychology, asking and answering deep questions such as "Who am I?" or "Why am I here?" with existential therapy groups, explore the power of sound with therapeutic harp sessions for emotional catharsis, and much more!
See my counseling group schedule for more details!
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Family Therapy is a systems-based approach that combines many therapies into a unique skill set for you and your family to help address challenges, find solutions, work on acceptance, self-change, and to identify the qualities of your own family system.
Each family has their own set of rules, culture, behaviors, patterns, and enjoyment. It will be my job as your therapist to discover family strengths, areas of improvement, and to provide resources and coping skills for your family to thrive together.
