Therapy for Adults · Sacramento Metro East + California Telehealth
Amanda McBee, LMFTtherapy for finding your way back to yourself.
I work with adults who are managing the outside of their lives well and feeling stretched thin underneath it. The work is about finding your way back to who you are, underneath the people-pleasing and the self-doubt.
The work I do
Doing my best work with the person, not the role.
I am Amanda McBee, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with more than a decade of clinical experience working with children, teens, adults, and families. Over the last several years my practice has narrowed, on purpose, around the people I do my best work with: adults who are managing the outside of their lives well and feeling stretched thin underneath it.
A lot of the people I see have, in some way, lost themselves. They are doing what is expected, keeping everyone else okay, and quietly running out of room. Underneath the people-pleasing and the self-doubt there is usually a version of themselves they have not met yet. Most of the people I see are not failing at this. They are caught in a pattern that is hard to see from the inside. The work is about figuring out what they actually want and becoming the person who can go after it. Parents are some of the people I see most often, because parenting is one of the places this pattern shows up hardest, but the work itself is about the person, not the role.
Often this comes to a head around a transition: going back to school at forty, leaving a relationship, the last kid moving out, any moment that quietly asks who you are now. The work is finding your way back to yourself inside of it.
How I work
Closer to real conversation than to a technique-first protocol.
I take an integrative, evidence-based approach, drawing on cognitive behavioral therapy, EMDR, Brainspotting, schema therapy, solution-focused work, and a person-centered baseline. In most sessions the work looks closer to real conversation than to a technique-first protocol. We move at a pace that lets the work surface what is actually happening, and we look at the patterns behind the visible stress.
When more structure or a more body-aware approach will help, I bring those tools in. The therapy is shaped around the person I am working with and what they are carrying into the room.
Training and modalities
How I choose what we use.
I am trained in cognitive behavioral therapy, EMDR, Brainspotting, schema therapy, solution-focused brief therapy, strength-based and positive psychology approaches, and person-centered and family-systems work. I reach for whatever fits the person in front of me, drawing on the training I have rather than building the work around a single label.
Why I do this work
The people who find their way to me are usually not broken. They’re stuck, carrying old ways of getting by that worked once and stopped fitting. What keeps me in this work is that we figure it out together, what you actually want, and who you’re becoming.
The practical part
The details, in plain terms.
Credential
Amanda McBee, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, State of California.
In person
11121 Sun Center Drive, Suite F1, Rancho Cordova, CA 95670. By appointment, with free on-site parking.
Telehealth
Available to clients located anywhere in California, by secure video.
Service area
Sacramento Metro East for in-person sessions, including Folsom, Rancho Cordova, Roseville, El Dorado Hills, and Cameron Park. California-wide by video.
Fees
$170 per 50-minute session. A limited number of sliding-scale spots are available, please ask.
Insurance
I am out-of-network. I provide superbills you can submit for possible out-of-network reimbursement, depending on your plan.
Set up a free consultation
The first step is a free 15-minute call.
There is no paperwork beforehand. We talk about what is going on for you, what you are hoping for in therapy, and whether we are a good fit.
(916) 337-8714 · amanda@amandamcbee.com