Dr. Amanda Veldorale-Griffin, LMFT
Supportive therapist for relationships and identity
About Amanda
Dr. Amanda Veldorale-Griffin offers a calm, straightforward approach for people feeling overwhelmed by relationship, identity, or family-related stresses.
Background and approach
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 17 years of clinical experience and works with clients from Oregon by phone and online. Her focus is on practical steps that make day-to-day life feel more manageable.
Her style centers on collaboration. She listens to what matters most to the client and then builds simple, realistic steps to address those concerns.
Sessions often look at communication patterns, attachment needs, and how stress shows up in relationships and parenting. She uses methods that help people feel understood and then move toward clearer goals.
Dr. Veldorale-Griffin brings training in family relations and marriage and family therapy to her work.
She draws on approaches such as client-centered listening and emotionally-focused methods to support stronger connections. Solution-focused strategies are used to identify small changes that create quick relief.
She has a long history of working with LGBT people and those facing gender dysphoria, and she attends to issues like grief, trauma, mood concerns, and eating or intimacy-related struggles. She also helps with communication problems, caregiver stress, and challenges that come from family of origin dynamics.
In sessions she aims for a warm, practical tone. The plan is to identify steps that fit daily life and then check in on what’s working.
People leave with clearer next steps and tools they can try between sessions.
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the client’s perspective. Sessions are built around the client’s priorities, which helps people who feel unsure where to begin with their concerns.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people recognize and change interaction patterns that keep them feeling distant or unsafe with others. It can be useful for people dealing with attachment issues, intimacy struggles, or relationship stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which methods fit best. That decision is based on the client’s goals, their day-to-day needs, and what feels most workable for them.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from wherever the client is. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a camera isn’t convenient. Live chat and text-based messaging offer shorter check-ins and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options give flexibility for different schedules and communication styles.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Oregon
- Languages
- English